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Two new reports published on World Children's Day reflect on violations of children's rights in Türkiye, with one reporting on numbers of children killed and injured due to armed conflict in east and southeast parts of the country and other one on child workers killed on job in the last ten years.

While the Health and Safety Labor Watch released a report on the occupational homicides of children on November 20 World Children’s Day, CHP MP Aydoğan raised concerns that 345 children and 780 babies are in prison with their mothers.

On the occasion of November 20 World Children’s Day, the Human Rights Association (İHD) Children’s Rights Commission has shared the rights violations faced by children during the pandemic: Earthquake, distance education, child labor…

MP Tanrıkulu has shared statistics about children's rights in the country.

Even though some steps have been taken about children’s rights in Turkey, several children still cannot access their rights. Here are some TurkStat statistics on child labor, child marriage, juveniles pushed into crime, nourishment and schooling...

On the occasion of November 20 World Children’s Day, main opposition CHP MP Barut has submitted a Parliamentary question on child labor. “Children are mistreated because laws are exploited or not enforced,” the MP has said.

On the World Children's Day 2011, a part of the children in Turkish prisons is still being kept in adult prisons and there are still reservations on "language rights and cultural identity" as defined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.