UN Human Rights Council

UN sees tripling of children killed in conflict in one year

UN sees tripling of children killed in conflict in one year

  • Warring parties were increasingly “pushing beyond boundaries of what is acceptable — and legal,” UN rights chief Volker Turk told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
  • “Children shot at. Hospitals bombed. Heavy artillery launched on entire communities. All along with hateful, divisive, and dehumanizing rhetoric“
By AFP ·