UN: Syria War Has Caused One Million Child Refugees -- Voice of America
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — The United Nations reports one million Syrian children are refugees from conflict in their country.
Two U.N. agencies say Syria’s war, which is well into its third year, is the most serious crisis facing children today. They say children make up half of all the Syrian refugees who have fled to neighboring countries and increasingly to North Africa and Europe.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said the children arrive in countries of asylum traumatized, depressed and angry.
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