Year 2014 has been a devastating year for children with up to 15 million swept up in wars in the Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, the Palestinian territories, Syria and Ukraine, the UN children’s agency said Monday.
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“Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality,” Unicef director Anthony Lake said.
“Children have been killed while studying in the classroom and while sleeping in t
heir beds; they have been orphaned, kidnapped, tortured, recruited, raped and even sold as slaves.”
“This has been a devastating year for millions of children,” he said.
Globally, 230 million children currently live in …read more
Source: The Frontier Post
