World Children’s Day: Children and young people’s futures and well-being are at risk due to dire impact of climate change in the Middle East

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The Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, launched at the G20 Summit in 2023, unites over 145 countries and organizations to end hunger and malnutrition. With $7 billion needed annually, the alliance aims to tackle child food insecurity and malnutrition through coordinated global efforts and financial commitments.

Children in the Middle East and Eastern Europe face unique challenges that affect their safety, development and participation in the society. 1 in 3 children in MEER live in horrific situations of war, conflict and violence.

Gender inequity and gender-based violence are hampering both, human rights realization and economic growth worldwide, but especially in the Middle East and Eastern Europe (MEER), with sobering statistics on femicide, violence against women and gender-based discrimination.

In the Middle East, young people between the ages of 15–29 make up around 30 percent of the population and face the fastest growing youth unemployment rate in the world.

Children in Middle East and Eastern Europe region face heightened vulnerability, psychological distress, trauma, and social instability due to ongoing crises. MHPSS interventions are critical in cultivating emotional resilience, social cohesion, and well-being among the most vulnerable populations.

Climate change presents the single biggest threat to human development, and its widespread impacts disproportionately burden the poorest and most vulnerable households in fragile and rural developing contexts, particularly women and children.