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Science in the fight to uphold the rights of children

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  • Arthur L Caplan
  • Peter J Hotez

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The United States is the only major nation to not yet have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Recently, there has been an erosion of the rights of children across America, Europe, and elsewhere, but through science, we may have an opportunity to counter some of this alarming trend. In the area of vaccines, the scientific community can raise its voice on the dangers that nonmedical exemptions and delays pose to children at risk for measles, influenza, and other childhood illnesses. Poverty places infants and children at high risk for illness and homelessness. Gun violence and gun-related accidents are killing on average four American children daily, and climate change is promoting global pediatric malnutrition. Increasing international, federal, and state support to seek innovative solutions to these and related issues is a moral imperative.In this Perspective article, Peter Hotez and Arthur Caplan argue that scientists can have important and new roles in limiting recent declines in the rights of children across America (and in some European countries), especially in the areas of child poverty, low vaccination rates, gun violence, and disease and malnutrition due to climate change.

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  • Arthur L Caplan & Peter J Hotez, 2018. "Science in the fight to uphold the rights of children," PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(9), pages 1-5, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pbio00:3000010
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000010
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    1. Peter J Hotez & Sheila Jackson Lee, 2017. "US Gulf Coast states: The rise of neglected tropical diseases in "flyover nation"," PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(11), pages 1-4, November.
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    1. Peter J Hotez, 2018. "Crafting your scientist brand," PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(10), pages 1-7, October.

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