More than 500 million children live in areas of armed conflict
According to the NGO Save the Children, more than 520 million children lived in conflict zones by 2024. Africa is the most affected region: 32% of all children on that continent live under armed violence. By 2024, an average of 78 children were killed, abducted, sexually assaulted and mutilated on a daily basis, among others.
According to a report released this Tuesday by the NGO Save the Children, 520 million childrenlived in areas of armed conflict by 2024.
This means that one in five children in the world live in a conflict zone, andthat Africa is the most affected region, with 218 million children affected by armed violence on that continent, or 32% of the total childhood on that continent.
Every day of 2024, 78 minors were, on average, victims of serious violations of their rights: murders, kidnappings, sexual assaults, mutilations, forced recruitment for combat or assaults on their schools.
There were 41 763 serious UN confirmed cases worldwide, 30 per cent more than a year earlier.
Half of the cases of child rights violations are being dealt with in four Edi wars: Palestine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger and Somalia. Palestinian children are the most affected: one in three children killed or mutilated in the world in 2024 was Palestinian.
Moreover, there is a terrible connection between violence against children and military expenditure: the countries with the largest number of unprotected children are, at the same time, the countries with the highest spending on arms.
The prospects are not good, because rich countries are reducing their funding to humanitarian aid, and the UN itself is immersed in a period of reforms and savings that will leave some of the current child protection in the world uncovered.
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