Grave violations on children in war affected area- UNICEF

A report by UNICEF shows more than 70 cases of grave violations are recorded daily against children caught up in the war.

 Highlights

• A staggering report by UNICEF shows that more than 70 reports on child violations.
• It is happening in the areas of war and conflict in Africa, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Latin America.
• The report is a 16 years long analysis. 
• More than 100,000 children are dead.

The latest report of UNICEF shows a shocking number of grave violations against children. This is mainly in war stricken countries. The children of these countries have to face the horror of life unimaginable for normal children everyday. There have been more than 250,000 reports for child violation from 2005 to 2020. 

The conflict stricken countries Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Israel, state of Palestine and Syria are the hot-spots. These countries report more than 82% of cases ever. There are more than 71 grave violations reports daily. 

Ms Tasha Gill, UNICEF’s senior advisor on child protection in emergencies said in a press briefing that their analysis shows that even after decades of advocating with the parties and those who influence them and also monitoring and reporting as well as documenting right violation, children continue to suffer the brunt of the war.

UNICEF’s report of grave violations

The report says that more than 104,000 kids were dead, enroll more than 90,000 children to conflict as well as abduct at least 25,700 children to conflict.

They further adds to understand the magnitude of the issue- from 2010 to 2020, there was an increase of more than 180% of grave child rights violations that happens on kids from conflicted situations. Ms. Gill further says that it is important to note that a lot of children experience more than 1 violation which in turn makes them more vulnerable. Abductions often combines with other violations like recruitment or sexual violence. 

UNICEF staff, other UN and partner organizations are taking efforts to collect and confirm the information of grave violations to understand and respond to the needs of these children. These efforts earns positive results.

Ms Gill said that they do believe that the international community as whole at large can do more things to protect children in the conflict.

Amidst all this devastating news, there is a positive note. More than 170,000 children were free from the arm forces. Many victims survive multiple grave violation which includes abduction and sexual abuse.