children rights
![Afne AFNE is an association of families adopting children from Ethiopia that was established in Barcelona in 2003.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/afne_1.jpg?itok=68sykUom&c=95770adf8ce53b2668899166f6c1f7b1)
The board member of AFNE explains the projects carried out by the association in Ethiopia and how today’s health crisis is affecting them.
![Ahead association Xavier Baró, president of the Ahead association.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/xavier_varo.jpg?itok=2fHUQ2UG&c=95770adf8ce53b2668899166f6c1f7b1)
The president of the Ahead association tells us about the projects in the organisation and how the poverty that is brought on by the pandemic is affecting the most vulnerable groups.
Covid-19 has brought our lives to a halt, and it is “infecting” everything. It seems, once again, that the attention paid to the problems arising from the pandemic has not been attentive enough to the needs of adolescents.
![Sharon Mccutcheon - Unsplash The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting on the rights of all children and young people in Scotland.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/sharon-mccutcheon-bedh-pxxz0c-unsplash.jpg?itok=Z-WZxYDb&c=c8c15a38fcedfca57623163bf921182f)
An independent study analyses how Covid-19 has changed the life of children and youth in this European country.
![Andrew Ebrahim - Unsplash The Comprehensive Child Rights Strategy is expected to be launched at the beginning of 2021.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/andrew-ebrahim-zrwxf6pizeo-unsplash.jpg?itok=6gsCWoVg&c=17d84c7110b5abf111c8e638eaeb086f)
Eurochild, Child Rights Action Group and UNICEF have published a position paper to influence the development of the EU Comprehensive Child Rights Strategy.
The legal framework is there, the solutions are there and now the question is if the political will is there?
![Pilar Polo, the person in charge of institutional relations in the Vicki Bernadet Foundation.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/pilar_polo_0.jpg?itok=E2U4-zTV)
The person in charge of institutional relations at the Vicki Bernadet Foundation says she has provided counselling to around thirty children since the start of the year.
The 20th November, Universal Children’s Day, is a good opportunity to continue giving a voice to all those children who are voiceless and to reclaim that if we fail to protect children we will have no present and no future.
![Children have serious problems of violence, poverty and migrations.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/ong-ayuda-infancia_save-the-children_0.jpg?itok=0Zybdv_0)
The director of 'Save the Children' in Catalonia warns of the serious problems of violence, poverty and migrations that minors still suffer and the challenges for the protection of the children that remain to be resolved.
![Up to 75% of children in more deprived regions of poor countries can’t read a single word. Source: Pencils of promise.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/pencilsofpromise0.png?itok=T6gSgjie)
250 million children of primary school age lack basic reading, writing and math skills. This founding works in deprived regions to reduce these figures.
![Indian project to children trough the toys](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/1._india_toybank.jpg?itok=bIGa_6ry)
This NGO promotes values through the game to the children from rural areas of the country.
![Volunteers in Mes Kitokie center in Kaunas, Lithuania](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/lituania_kaunas2.jpg?itok=ez4iF5L-)
Rita Gutiérrez is an anthropologist and is now in Mes Kitokie center in Kaunas, Lithuania. She is volunteering with disabled and autistic children as an international volunteer. We asked her about her experience.