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UNICEF: Brutality against children 'cannot be the new normal'
29.12.2017 09:17 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Children within the conflict zones around the world have come under attack at a «shocking scale» throughout 2017, UN Radio says referring to the UNICEF (the UN Children’s Fund) report.
As to the report, children have become frontline targets, used as human shields, killed, maimed and recruited to fight.
Reportedly, forced marriage, abduction and enslavement have become «standard tactics» in conflicts from Iraq, Syria and Yemen, to Nigeria, South Sudan and Myanmar.
In addition to the direct impact, millions more children are paying an indirect price for the conflicts, suffering from malnutrition, disease and trauma as basic services - including access to food, water, health and sanitation - are denied, damaged or destroyed within the fighting.
In meanwhile, UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes Manuel Fontaine admits that the world cannot become numb as such attacks continue year after year.
«Such brutality cannot be the new normal,» he stresses.
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