Oman among top three in the Arab world in children's rights

Amsterdam: Oman has been placed among the top three countries at the Arab level in KidsRights Index 2017.
The Index was published by the International Children’s Rights Foundation "KidsRights" and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The Sultanate, which scored 0.822 point was ranked 23rd on the world level at the index, which covers 165 countries.
The international ranking depends on five criteria that include the child rights for life, health, education, protection and the child right friendly environment.
The child right to live monitors the rate of below 5-year old mortality rate among children and mother mortality rate.
The child right for health monitors the rate of below 5-year-old children suffering from underweight, the universality of the child vaccination at the age of five,
the rate of population using sanitary drainage utilities and the rate of users of potable water from improved sources.
The child right for education monitors the child enrolling rate at the primary and secondary school and the rate of completing study till the last years.
The child right for protection observes the rate of child labour and the rate of child registration.
The child right for child right friendly environment monitors the cooperation among institutions of the state and civil society organisations in the field of child right and the respect level for the child views, as well as nondiscrimination among them.
Portugal topped the list followed by Switzerland, Iceland, Spain, France and Sweden. Central Africa, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Venezuela and Chad came at the bottom of the list.