UNICEF says scale of attacks on children in conflicts is shocking

The UN Children's Fund says the scale of attacks on children in the world's conflict zones reached "shocking" levels in 2017.

In a new report, UNICEF said there is widespread and blatant disregard for international laws designed to protect the most vulnerable.
 
UNICEF Director, Manuel Fontaine said children are being targeted in their homes, schools and playgrounds. 

He said such brutality "cannot be the new normal".

The report highlights several conflict zones where it said children had suffered in the past year. 

It includes the Central African Republic, north-eastern Nigeria and Cameroon, South Sudan, Yemen and Eastern Ukraine and Myanmar where Muslim Rohingya children were targeted. 

SOURCE: BBC NEWS
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