Children in conflict zones faced over 27,000 'grave violations' in 2022

Children experienced highest number of 'grave violations' in conflicts verified by UN in 2022, with Israeli occupation of Palestine and conflicts in DRC and Somalia putting most youngsters in peril

Palestinian children look out of a window, broken during the attack by illegal Israeli settlers, on Turmus Aya near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 22, 2023. / Photo: AFP

"Grave violations" include the recruitment and use of children by combatants, killings and injuries, sexual violence, abductions, and attacks on schools and hospitals. Government and parties to conflicts are not fulfilling their commitments to protect children, and"meaningful and unambiguous action" is needed, the UNICEF official said.In his yearly report to the council late last month, Secretary General Antonio Guterres put Russian forces on the UN's annual blacklist of countries that violate children's rights in conflict for killing boys and girls and attacking schools and hospitals in Ukraine.

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