More than 12,000 children were killed and injured during conflicts around the world in 2018, which is a record, according to the Annual Special Report
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More than 12,000 children were killed and injured during conflicts around the world in 2018, a record released by the UN said. According to the annual special report of the Secretary General of the United Nations Children and Armed Conflict, 20 disputes were monitored in 2018 there were reports of more than 12,000 children being killed and injured. The Secretary General (António Guterres) said that I was particularly appalled at the serious crime figures against children.
According to reports, children were used as soldiers for fighting in Somalia, Nigeria and Syria. And in 2018, at least 7,000 children around the world were sent to the front for war. The UN says child abductions continue to raise more than half of these incidents occurred in Somalia where 25,000 incidents were reported so that they could be used for civil war or sexual misconduct.
The report says that in total 933 incidents of sexual assault against boys and girls were reported but they are lower than expected because there were obstacles to reach all the affected children. UN says attacks on schools and hospitals have dropped slightly in 2018, but some disputes have increased sharply including Afghanistan and Syria, where such incidents are most prevalent. According to the report, the problem of access to children’s education in Mali is serious where the military educates children in its schools, by the end of December 2018 in Mali, 827 schools were closed and 24,400 children were barred from teaching. The UN Special Report on Conflict and Children says that children are being affected in civil war-affected countries, which is very sad where they are killed or abducted.
According to the report, Afghanistan ranks first in terms of child deaths, with 3062 children being targeted in 2018, which is 28% of the total deaths in the country. Aerial operations and battles in Syria killed 1854 children, as well as 1689 children were killed in fighting in Yemen. According to the UN, Israeli operations during the conflict between Israel and Palestine, the highest number of casualties in 2014 since 2014, where 59 Palestinian children were killed and 2756 injured.
