Tears: A young boy holds a crying child in a camp for displaced persons in Kavaja, Albania circa 1945. In 2015 in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, a crying child is comforted near Gevgelija. Unicef says long and uncertain journeys leave children frightened and vulnerable
Daily Mail: Young lives torn apart by seven decades of war: Heartbreaking images released by Unicef show the impact on children of the conflicts of the last 70 years
* Nearly 1 in 4 migrants, refugees arriving in Europe are children
* Founded in 1946, Unicef first helped refugee children after WWII
* Europe was experiencing it largest population movements in its history
* 70 years later, Unicef is witnessing remarkably similar scenes in the same places
It's become a byword for children's rights throughout the world.
Founded in 1946, Unicef - United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund - has been coming to the aid of children suffering from poverty and fleeing violence for 70 years.
Now the organisation has released a series of pictures from their archive to highlight the stark similarities between the children they were set up to aid and their current charges.
WNU Editor: Some things never change.
No comments:
Post a Comment