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Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input regarding Human Rights Council Resolution 49/20 on the rights of the child and social protection. This submission reflects Human Rights Watch’s research on social protection and children in Ghana, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Uganda, and the United States.
RELEASE: CAP Report Outlines the Structural But Solvable Problem of Child Poverty in the U.S. Date: January 12, 2021 Contact: Julia Cusick Washington, D.C. — The United States consistently has the highest child poverty rate of any OECD country. Nearly 11 million—or 1 in 7—children in the United States live in poverty. And systemic inequalities stretching back before the country’s founding contribute to disproportionate rates of poverty for Black, Latinx, Asian American, and Native children. And while these data were calculated before the COVID-19 crisis, already some calculations hav...