Stopping the War on Children
Children living in conflict zones are being targeted for violence on an unprecedented scale, despite their “protected” status under human-rights laws. As world leaders gather in New York this month for the UN General Assembly, they should call a halt to the violation of children's rights, for which many of them are partly to blame.
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LONDON – Twenty years ago this month, the United Nations General Assembly received a report by former Mozambican Education Minister Graça Machel detailing the effects of armed conflict on children. Documenting a pattern of systematic and targeted attacks, including killing, rape, and forced recruitment into armed groups, Machel concluded: “This is a space devoid of the most basic human values….There are few further depths to which humanity can sink.”