The Faculty of Tourist Sciences at Kerbala University holds an electronic workshop entitled “the impact of the Corona pandemic on children’s rights”, through the Zoom application.
The workshop aims at supporting child protection practitioners to better respond to the risks related to child protection during the ongoing Corona pandemic.
The workshop reveals the infectious diseases such as the Corona pandemic cause in disrupting environments in which children grow and grow. The disruption of families, friendships, daily programs, and the wider community can have negative consequences for children’s health, development and protection. In addition, child protection mechanisms may be disrupted as a result of the measures used to prevent and control the spread of the Corona pandemic.
The workshop concludes that some risks to child protection are observed during the current Corona pandemic, and there were dangers observed during previous cases of outbreaks of infectious diseases. As far as the risks to child protection are concerned, physical and emotional abuse. Sexual violence, mental health and psychosocial stress, child labor, social exclusion. As for the response in order to protect children, it is noted that the minimum standards for child protection in the framework of humanitarian actions require preventing and responding to outbreaks of infectious diseases in close coordination and cooperation between several actors, and the response must include several sectors to ensure that the needs of children and caregivers are comprehensively addressed , and lead to better results for children. Child protection actors should also consider collaborating with religious and community leaders.
