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STORY: UNICEF / SYRIA CHILDREN
TRT: 1:55
SOURCE: UNICEF /FILE
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01 GMT, 13 MARCH, 2017; CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: FILE
14 JANUARY, 2016, MADAYA, SYRIA
1. Close-up, health worker measures child’s arm
2. Med shot, health workers examine a child
3. Med shot, health worker measures child’s arm
SEPTEMBER, 2016, MADAYA, SYRIA
4. Close-up, boxes of aid being unloaded from truck
5. Wide shot, boxes of aid being unloaded from truck
6. Wide shot, boxes of aid being sorted
7. Med shot, health worker examining a child
8. Close-up, health worker examining a child
9. Med shot, health worker examining a child
10. Close-up, health worker examining a child
20-24 JUNE, 2016, ALEPPO, SYRIA
11. Wide shot, children collecting water from a water point
12. Wide shot, children collecting water from a water point
13. Wide shot, children collecting water from a water point
14. Wide shot, child walks amidst rubble with water can
3 DECEMBER, 2016, JIBREEN DISTRICT, ALEPPO, SYRIA
15. Wide shot, newly displaced families from east Aleppo arriving at a shelter
16. Wide shot, little girl on a wheelchair
17. Med shot, children eating snacks at the shelter
18. Wide shot, children drinking and filling water bottles rom a UNICEF water tank
19. Wide shot, children drinking and filling water bottles rom a UNICEF water tank
20. Wide shot, children receiving vaccinations from health workers
21. Wide shot, children are examined by health workers
22. Med shot, child being examined by health workers
23. Wide shot, mother and child inside a mobile health clinic
Grave violations against children in Syria were the highest on record in 2016, said UNICEF in a grim assessment of the conflict’s impact on children, as the war reaches its sixth year.
Verified instances of killing, maiming and recruitment of children increased sharply last year in a drastic escalation of violence across the country.
At least 652 children were killed – a 20 per cent increase from 2015 – making 2016 the worst year for Syria’s children since the formal verification of child casualties began in 2014.
In addition, 255 children were killed in or near a school while more than 850 children were recruited to fight in the conflict, more than double the number recruited in 2015.
Children are being used and recruited to fight directly on the frontlines and are increasingly taking part in combat roles, including in extreme cases as executioners, suicide bombers or prison guards.
There were at least 338 attacks against hospitals and medical personnel.
Challenges in access in several parts of Syria stand in the way of assessing the full scale of children’s suffering and of urgently getting humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable girls and boys. Beyond the bombs, bullets and explosions, children are dying in silence often from diseases that can otherwise be easily prevented. Access to medical care, lifesaving supplies and other basic services remains difficult.
The most vulnerable among Syria’s children are the 2.8 million in hard-to-reach areas, including 280,000 children living under siege, almost completely cut off from humanitarian aid.
After six years of war, nearly 6 million children now depend on humanitarian assistance, a twelve-fold increase from 2012. Millions of children have been displaced, some up to seven times. Over 2.3 million children are now living as refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq.
Inside Syria and across its borders, coping mechanisms are eroding, and families are taking extreme measures just to survive, often pushing children into early marriage and child labour. In more than two thirds of households, children are working to support their families, some in extremely harsh conditions unfit even for adults.
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