Children's Rights

Reference B9-0164/2021

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How the groups voted

GroupForAgainstAbstainedAbsentUnity

The Left39

38001100%

S&D145

140005100%

Greens/EFA73

674

The European Parliament adopted by 545 votes to 24, with 119 abstentions, a resolution on children’s rights in view of the EU Strategy on the rights of the child.A child is first and foremost a child, regardless of the child’s ethnic origin, gender, nationality or social and economic background, ability, or migration or residency status. The best interests of the child must be embedded in all EU policies, procedures and actions that concern children.The resolution highlighted the massive toll the COVID-19 crisis is having on children, further exacerbating their risk of poverty, severely affecting access to education, compromising their physical and mental health and increasing the danger of violence and abuse…