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UN records highest number of ‘grave violations’ against children in conflicts
Hadiiq Abdulle Mohamed eats with her children at an internally displaced people camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, March 24, 2023

CHILDREN experienced the highest number of “grave violations” in conflicts verified by the United Nations in 2022, the UN children’s agency said on Wednesday.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said that conflicts in the Palestinian occupied territories, Congo and Somalia were placing the most children in peril.

Unicef also expressed particular concern about the plight of children in Haiti, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Ukraine, where Russia has been put on a UN blacklist.

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