The last year has been the most brutal for the worlds children in recent memory, with a quarter of a billion of them living in places touched by armed conflict, UNICEF said in a report on Monday. The onslaught has been so great that many of the protracted crises are no longer capturing global attention. Children have been killed while studying in the classroom and while sleeping in their beds; they have been orphaned, kidnapped, tortured, recruited, raped and even sold as slaves. Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:28:32 +0000
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