Archive for June 14th, 2024

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14/06/2024

United Nations Reports ‘Shocking’ Rise in Violations against Children in Conflict in 2023

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Violence against children caught in armed conflict reached “extreme levels” last year, with a “shocking” 21 per cent increase in extreme violations, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a report published on Thursday [13 June 2024]. 

 

 

 

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© UNICEF/Tess Ingram | A young boy recovers in hospital in Gaza after the shelter he was living in with his family was bombed.

Children were killed and maimed in unprecedented numbers in places such as Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, notably Gaza; Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Ukraine, his annual report on Children and Armed Conflict revealed. 

The alarming increase was due to the evolving nature, complexity, and intensification of armed conflict, as well as the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, the report said.

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14/06/2024

Forced Displacement Surged to Historic New Levels across the Globe: 120 Million

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UNHCR warns against apathy and inaction amid spike in forced displacement.

GENEVA, 13 June 2024 (UNHCR)* — Overall numbers rise to 120 million by May 2024; conflicts from Sudan to Gaza and Myanmar are creating new displacement and urgently require resolution.

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Habiba Shoaib, a community representative and internally displaced person from Sudan’s Blue Nile State.© UNHCR/Ala Kheir

Forced displacement surged to historic new levels across the globe last year and this, according to the 2024 flagship Global Trends Report from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. 

The rise in overall forced displacement – to 120 million by May 2024 – was the 12th consecutive annual increase and reflects both new and mutating conflicts and a failure to resolve long-standing crises.

The figure would make the global displaced population equivalent to the 12th largest country in the world, around the size of Japan’s.

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