Innocent will have more protection during Ukrain war: UN

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Innocent will have more protection during Ukrain war

United Nations: The United Nations has said that it will keep an eye on any type of crime against children in the war in Ukraine and conflicts in Ethiopia, Mozambique as well as Africa’s central Sahel region. These include murder, wounding, rape, and other forms of sexual violence. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in his annual report on ‘Children and Armed Conflict’ that the United Nations is already monitoring the situation of children in 21 conflict zones and these four new conflict zones are also being included.

The UN chief said that increasing conflicts have severely affected the safety of children, as well as the manifold increase of armed groups, and the use of landmines, and explosive weapons in densely populated areas, adding to the humanitarian crisis. Incidents of human rights violations have also increased.

UN Special Envoy on “Children and Armed Conflict” Virginia Gamba told reporters, “Extremely violent armed group attacks, military coups, and instability, violent electoral processes in some countries have killed 19,100 children during the year 2021 in 21 countries.” has put him in a dire situation.” The report said that the highest number of cases of ‘serious crime’ is in Afghanistan, Congo, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. Guterres said Ukraine would also be put on the watch list.

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