We lost 2,000 children to book Haram-UNICEF

We lost 2,000 children to book Haram-UNICEF

Boko Haram group recruited about 2,000 children in 2016 and used them as child soldiers, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has said.
 Anthony Lake , UNICEF Executive Director, disclosed these as global leaders gather in Paris on the anniversary of the Paris Commitments to end the use of children in conflict, according to a UN report.
 Lake said estimates indicated that tens of thousands under the age of 18 were being used in conflicts worldwide.

 According to the UNICEF chief, exact data on the number of children used and recruited in armed conflict is difficult to ascertain because of the unlawful nature of child recruitment.
“For instance, since 2013 an estimated 17,000 children have been recruited in South Sudan and up to 10,000 have been recruited in the Central African Republic, CAR. Similarly, nearly 2,000 children were recruited by Boko Haram, in Nigeria and neighboring countries, last year alone, and there have been nearly 1,500 cases of child recruitment in Yemen since the conflict escalated in March 2015. We cannot give up the fight to end child recruitment,” the UNICEF chief said.


Source: We lost 2,000 children to book Haram-UNICEF

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