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The number of children in armed conflict zones are around 250 million. [1] They confront physical and mental harms from war experiences. "Armed conflict" is defined in two ways according to International Humanitarian Law: "1) international armed conflicts, opposing two or more States, 2) non-international armed conflicts, between governmental forces and nongovernmental armed groups, or between ...
In Germany, the concept of war child developed in the beginning of the 1990s when the generation that had experienced the Second World War during their childhood began to break their silence. [3] Since then the concept of war child has received broad media attention, especially in Germany. At the same time, science and research have examined ...
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War. Toronto: Kids Can Press ISBN 978-1-77138-126-0; International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) & The Global Center on Cooperative Security (September 2017). "Correcting the Course: Juvenile Justice Principles for Children Convicted of Violent Extremism Offenses", ICCT & GCCS, 1–12.
In 1997, she established the first Kim Phúc Foundation in the U.S., with the aim of providing medical and psychological assistance to child victims of war. [36] Later, other foundations were set up, with the same name, under an umbrella organization, Kim Phúc Foundation International. [37]
A Nov. 30 report in The New York Times says that 14,000 have died since the war started on Oct. 7, according to Gazan officials. Among the dead, 10,000 are women and children. Among the dead ...
Report says Russia ‘maimed 518 children and carried out 480 attacks on Ukrainian schools and hospitals’ in 2022. ... Speaking about the post-war rebuild, the Kyiv politician said that, should ...
Injured child, 17 October 2023. Before the war, there were high numbers of children in Gaza that had documented high levels of emotional distress and mental illness, with a study in 2011 found that among Palestinian children PTSD rates were between 23-70%, [29] while a UNICEF study in 2021 found one in three children in Gaza needed care for ...
The first planeload of Palestinian children wounded in the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip reached the United Arab Emirates on Saturday, part of a pledged relief effort by the country to ...