“…effectively denying them a childhood, according to a report today.
Unicef’s flagship annual study showed more than one billion children are being denied the healthy and protected upbringing promised by the UN’s 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. Researchers found one in six (90 million) children is severely hungry, one in seven (270 million) has no healthcare at all and the report shows that nearly half of the 3.6 million people killed in war since 1990 have been children.” The Scotsman
