The terrorist group and self-proclaimed Islamic State, ISIL, also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS, has repeatedly committed fundamental violations of children’s rights in the Middle East, and more specifically in Iraq and Syria, the cluster currently controls large areas in which millions of individuals live and it has declared itself a “State” therefore it is …

“The scenes of a toddler lying dead in the mud and the body of a boy washed up on a Turkish beach are tragic evidence of the world’s failure to fulfil its obligations to the world’s children” (UN News, 2017). Because of countries’ lax commitment or unsuccessful strategies of children’s rights protection, approximately 1 billion children see their basic human …

Although the effects of an uncontrolled global climate warming and the impact over world’s environments and habitats that would follow are well covered by the scientific community, decision-makers should also be concerned over the impact that the unavoidable future we might be walking towards will have over the most vulnerable part of the world’s population: children. The literature regarding the …

Millions of individuals around the world suffer from malnutrition. Most of them come from countries that are linked directly with conflicts, as conflicts affect the food availability and accessibility by having a great impact on agricultural production, mainly through the destruction of infrastructure. Besides that, conflict causes security malfunctions related to the access to the markets and thus, as a …

On the 31st of May 2021, China announced its 3-child policy in an attempt to address the challenges associated with it ageing population. The decision comes weeks after the release of the latest census results which predicts a rapidly ageing population and decreasing population of economically active (The Economist, 2021). Indeed, last year, China’s births fell to their lowest in …