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Children of War

14 conflicts

1000+ death per year

1. Syrian Civil War (2011 - present time)

Total: 220 000

2015: 6 758      

14 million

on 12.03.2015 by UNICEF report

11 000+ 

on Feb 2014

 

2013 August 21 Ghouta chemical attack 

 1 429 / 426

2.Boko Haram Conflict (2009-present time)

Total: 15 000

2015: 4 814    

Schools

12 years old + enforced to be soldiers and used in intelligence

9 years old + are sold to sexual slavery

April 2014  276 girls kidnapped

3.Iraq Civil War (2011-present time)

Total: 35 829

2015: 3 050    

4. War in Donbass (2014-present time)

Total: 5 793

2015: 1 022 

44+ died

1 000+ lives in bomb shelters

10 000+ still locates in the conflict zone

50 000+ cannot visit schools

600 000+ kids needs urgent help

1 700 000+ get in a hardship of war

224 000 needs school supplies to continue school

5. War in North-West Pakistan(2004-present time)

Total: 56 724

2015: 712      

December 2014 132 kids were killed in Peshawar school

More the 1/3 of all drone attacks left dead kids after

Used as suicide bombers and bomb planters

60 000 under 15 are opium addicted

Afghanistan - most dangerous place to be born

1/3 kids under 5 are underweight

43% has no access to education

children traffic

4+ working time

57% of marriages are classified as kid marriage (under 16)

Children in Mexico: victims or criminals?

30 000 involved to organised crime

1 500+ killed

psychological traumas

diseases

physical injuries

lost of family/family members

kidnapping

sexual slavary

kids-soldiers 300 000+

hunger

abandoned kids

no home

no childhood

no education

References

Children of War

By Tanya Butenko

Children of War

War is not a place for children

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