Poverty, education, disability: these are three areas for improving children’s rights in France. Laurence Rossignol explained to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
France had to face up to its responsibilities. On January 13 and 14, the Secretary of State for Children, Laurence Rossignol, was heard by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The country’s report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child was reviewed. The State is working to make up for the delay that earned it to be pinned down in 2009 by the United Nations.
In France, three million children live below the poverty line, according to Unicef. More worrying: 30,000 of them do not have a home and 9,000 live in a slum. A damning finding for the country of Human Rights. In 2009, the government began work to improve the record in this area. The back-to-school allowance and certain family benefits were thus upgraded in 2013.
The French state has also set about improving the record in terms of education. Still according to Unicef, 140,000 children are dropping out of school. School rhythms have been reformed in the hope of finding a solution. The education of children under 3 has also been developed since 2012. Thus, in 2014, one in five children under 3 was enrolled in priority education networks.
But great progress remains to be made in the rights of children with disabilities. Non-compliance with the rules is regularly denounced by associations. In June, the Defender of the Rights of the Child even asked that the answers be diversified.
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