Kuwait committed to protecting children’s rights

Kuwait reaffirmed its commitment to promoting and protecting children's rights while offering full support to the international community's initiatives in this field. This statement came during a speech by the Kuwaiti Permanent Delegation to the United Nations that was delivered by Diplomatic Attache Raheeq Al-Abad, late Tuesday before the Third Committee on Social Humanitarian and Culture Affair, Article 67 concerning the promotion and protection of children's rights. Al-Abad highlighted that the world is facing challenges in providing decent and safe life for the children, such as poverty, lack of education, and the basic healthcare needs, as well as unsafe child-labor. Al-Abad reiterated Kuwait's commitment to protecting children's rights and their wellbeing, citing Law No.21 of 2015 on child's rights in Kuwait which guarantees children' basic rights. She mentioned the 2023 Gallup International survey, which Kuwait ranked second internationally in respecting children's rights, noting that in 1991 Kuwai t approved the Convention on the Rights of Child. She stated that Kuwait made remarkable achievements toward realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by cooperating with several organizations and bodies. Al-Abad expressed Kuwait's strongest condemnation of the unjustified violation committed by the Israeli occupation against innocent Palestinians and Lebanese children, a clear violation of international children's rights treaties. She pointed out that children in the Gaza Strip are facing and enduring a traumatic war that would haunt them in life, many sustained injures, others suffered from illness and malnutrition because of the ongoing attacks by the Israeli occupation. Kuwait reiterated its call for an immediate end to Israeli occupation violations against Palestinian and Lebanese children. Source: Kuwait News Agency