Monday, December 8, 2014

UNICEF: 2014 'A Devastating Year For Millions Of Children'



Unicef Calls 2014 One Of Worst Years On Record for World’s Children -- New York Times

The year 2014 has been one of the worst on record for the world’s children, the United Nations said on Monday in a report that chronicled a litany of war, violence, atrocities and disease, mostly in the Middle East and Africa.

Up to 15 million children are directly entangled in violent conflicts in the Central African Republic, Iraq, the Palestinian territories, South Sudan, Syria and Ukraine, said the report by the United Nations Children’s Fund, or Unicef.

Globally, the report said, an estimated 230 million children live in countries and areas riven by armed conflicts.

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