Tunisia was ranked 10th in the world in the KidRights Index 2016, the annual global index published by the KidsRights Foundation that charts how countries adhere to and are equipped to improve children’s rights.
The index covers 163 countries and aims to draw up an inventory of children’s rights around the world according to their compliance with international commitments and willingness to promote the status of children’s rights.
It is an initiative of the KidsRights Foundation, in co-operation with Erasmus University Rotterdam: Erasmus School of Economics and the International Institute of Social Studies.
Norway is the Index’s number one for the second year in a row. Runners up in 2016’s top ten are Portugal, Iceland, Spain, Switzerland, Slovakia, Ireland, France, Finland and Tunisia.
Tunisia topped Arab countries with Egypt, Oman, Lebanon, Jordan and Qatar ranking behind.
The index values the state of children’s rights around the world on five criteria: the Right to Life, Right to Health, Right to Education, Right to Protection and Child Rights Environmental.
Tunisia’s best rank per criteria was in the Child Rights Environment (5-9 rank) and the worst in the Right to Life (69th). It came 43rd in the Right to Health, 35th in the Right to Education and 23rd in the Right to Protection.
