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UNICEF: Children in Conflict Face Grave Rights Violations


Violence and insecurity have forced more than 28 million children from their homes in 2018, UNICEF said in a news release Thursday.

The U.N. children’s fund said it had responded to more than 300 emergencies to help children caught in many of the 40 armed conflicts raging around the world.

UNICEF said children had been tortured, raped, used as human shields or suicide bombers, recruited as child soldiers and subjected to a myriad of other atrocities by armed groups.

While fighting has killed and maimed tens of thousands of children, UNICEF said many more had died from the indirect consequences of …read more

Source: Voice of America

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