UN: 1 in 4 Children Live in Country of Conflict or Disaster

About a quarter of the world's children — about 535 million — are living in a country affected by conflict or disaster, the head of the U.N. children's agency said Monday. Henrietta Fore told a Security Council meeting Monday on children and armed conflict that it is "almost beyond comprehension" that one of every four young people are caught in that situation. She pointed to children and young people whose lives are being shattered by conflicts, including in Yemen,...

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