Political leaders should stop turning blind eye to atrocities affecting children in conflict zones

The very norms and standards to protect children—foundational to universal accords of war, conflict, and human rights—are being defied with near impunity.

Families fleeing escalating violence in northeast Syria continue to arrive in Tal Tamar. At least 160,000 people have been displaced due to fighting, mainly from north Syria. Nearly 70,000 of them are children. © UNICEF/UNI216990/Souleimain/AFP-Services

Opinion

BY DAVID MORLEY

October 18, 2019

Twenty-four thousand. That’s the number of children killed or maimed in conflicts in 2018. This is the highest number ever reported by the UN since it began monitoring the

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