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STORY: UNICEF / CHILDREN DEADLY DECADE
TRT: 2:43
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: VARIOUS DATES AND LOCATIONS
FILE - 30 AUGUST 2019, URUM AL-KUBRAH, SYRIA
1. Wide shot, destroyed hospital in Idilb
2. Wide shot, destroyed hospital in Idilb
3. Wide shot, destroyed premature care unit
4. Med shot, destroyed premature care unit
5. Med shot, IDP mother with child from Ras al-Ayn
6. Med shot, two children from Ras al-Ayn in temporary shelter
7. Wide shot, child in courtyard of school set up as temporary shelter
FILE - August 2019, Kabul, Afghanistan
8. Wide Shot, destroyed school
9. Med shot, interior destroyed school
10. Close shot, debris in destroyed school
11. Close shot, backpacks in destroyed school
FILE - September 2019, Taiz, Yemen
12. Wide shot, damaged school due to the conflict in Taiz governorate during the first week of the new educational year of 2019
13. Wide shot, children in schoolyard
14. Wide shot, children in destroyed school
15. Wide shot, children going to class in destroyed school
FILE – 22 January 2019, Aden, Yemen
16. Wide shot, Mother and child in the hallway of Al-Sadaqah hospital in Aden while receiving nutrition and anti-malnutrition treatment within the health and nutrition project supported by UNICEF across Yemen.
17. Close shot, malnourished child
18. Close shot, malnourished child
19. Close shot, child receiving malnutrition treatment
20. Close shot, malnourished child
FILE - 16 March 2019, Butembo, DEMOCRATIC REPBULIC OF THE CONGO
21. Close up, health worker putting on second layer gloves
22. Wide shot, pan suited health workers walking through center
23. Med shot, tilt down hand pumping chlorine spray
24. Wide shot, suspected boy in front of cubicle at Katwa CTE
FILE - 26 June 2019, Dori, Sahel Region, Burkina Faso
25. Wide shot, children performing attack drill hiding under desks
26. Med Shot, children close windows
27. Wide shot, children close doors
28. Med shot, pan children sheltering in place on floor
Children continue to pay a deadly price as conflicts rage around the world, UNICEF said today. Since the start of the decade, the United Nations has verified more than 170,000 grave violations against children in conflict – the equivalent of more than 45 violations every day for the last 10 years.
UNICEF said the number of countries experiencing conflict is the highest it has been since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, with dozens of violent armed conflicts killing and maiming children and forcing them from their homes.
In 2018, the UN verified more than 24,000 grave violations against children, including killing, maiming, sexual violence, abductions, denial of humanitarian access, child recruitment and attacks on schools and hospitals. While monitoring and reporting efforts have been strengthened, this number is more than two-and-a-half times higher than that recorded in 2010.
More than 12,000 children were killed or maimed in 2018. UNICEF noted that continued, widespread use of airstrikes and explosive weapons such as landmines, mortars, improvised explosive devices, rocket attacks, cluster munitions and artillery shelling cause the vast majority of child casualties in armed conflict.
Attacks and violence against children have not let up throughout 2019. During the first half of the year, the UN has verified over 10,000 such violations against children – although actual numbers are likely to be much higher.
UNICEF called on all warring parties to abide by their obligations under international law and to immediately end violations against children and the targeting of civilian infrastructure, including schools, hospitals and water infrastructure. UNICEF also called on states with influence over parties to conflict to use that influence to protect children.
UNICEF said it works across all these countries with partners to provide the most vulnerable children with health, nutrition, education and child protection services.
