UNICEF / GRAVE VIOLATIONS AGAINST CHILDREN
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STORY: UNICEF / GRAVE VIOLATIONS AGAINST CHILDREN
TRT: 2:52
SOURCE: UNICEF
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LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: SEE SHOTLISTS FOR DETAILS
SHOTLIST:
30 JANUARY 2023, BORODIANKA, UKRAINE
1. Med shot, 10-year-old Veronica visits the ruins of a high-rise building in the centre of Borodianka, Ukraine to feed street cats
28 SEPTEMBER 2022, LVIV, UKRAINE
2. Med shot, Eleven-year-old Artem from Kharkiv with attending medical staff
3. Wide shot, Eleven-year-old Artem with medical staff and mother
4. Close up, Eleven-year-old Artem from Kharkiv with attending medical staff
24 MARCH 2023, LYMAN, UKRAINE
5. Med shot, child walking by damaged window
6. Med shot, child at home with damaged window.
11 MAY 2023, EGYPT
7. Med shot, families in the first child friendly space established inside the "Karkar" bus station, in cooperation between UNICEF, Aswan Governorate, and the Directorate of Health and Population in Aswan, to provide psychosocial support to children and their families
8. Med shot, children in child friendly space
9. Med shot, child in child friendly space
10. Med shot, children’s drawings
15-17 NOVEMBER 2022, MOPTI REGION, MALI
11. Wide shot, Socoura displacement camp
12. Wide shot, displaced people in camp
13. Med shot, child in doorway of shelter
14. Wide shot, woman with baby walking into shelter
15. Wide shot, boy pulling toy car
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Foune Sanogo, 11 years old:
“That night we were sitting at home when the bandits came. People screamed and hid in their houses and locked their doors. When the attack was over, my mother and father said we needed to flee because it was too dangerous, and that’s how we came to be in Sevare.”
NOVEMBER 2020, SOUTH SUDAN
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anonymous child:
“When we were taken, they told us not to escape. If we did, they would find us again and kill us. So, I stayed.”
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anonymous child:
“ When they went with us, they said if anything happens we should fall down and not stand up as they would be in a position to defend us.”
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anonymous child:
“Life was very, very bad because of the thing I saw. They were killing people, slaughtering people, life was not good.”
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anonymous child:
“We were thinking of escaping but didn’t dare. One managed to escape, they caught him and they killed him in front of us.”
STORYLINE:
A staggering 315,000 grave violations against children in conflict were verified by the United Nations between 2005 and 2022, a stark illustration of the devastating impact of war and conflict on children.
As states, donors and the humanitarian community meet in Norway for the Oslo Conference on Protecting Children in Armed Conflict, UNICEF has reported that, since monitoring began in 2005, the UN has verified 315,000 grave violations committed by parties to conflict in more than 30 conflict situations across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
These include more than 120,000 children killed or maimed; at least 105,000 children recruited or used by armed forces or armed groups; more than 32,500 children abducted; more than 16,000 children subjected to sexual violence.
The UN has also verified more than 16,000 attacks on schools and hospitals, and more than 22,000 instances of denial of humanitarian access for children.
As these are just the cases that have been verified, the true toll is likely to be far higher.
Additionally, many millions more children have been displaced from their homes and communities, lost friends or family or been separated from parents or caregivers.
“Any war is ultimately a war on children,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “Exposure to conflict has catastrophic, life-changing effects for children. While we know what must be done to protect children from war, the world is not doing enough. Year after year, the UN documents the visceral, tragic and all too predictable ways that children’s lives are torn apart. It is incumbent on all of us to ensure that children do not pay the price for the wars of adults, and to take the bold, concrete action required to improve the protection of some of the world’s most vulnerable children.”
In this context, UNICEF has supported the care and protection of millions of affected children across conflict situations to enhance their well-being, including through the provision of mental health and psychosocial support, child protection case management, family tracing and reunification, and services for child survivors of gender-based violence. In 2022, UNICEF reached almost 12,500 children who exited armed forces or armed groups with reintegration or other protection support, and more than 9 million children with information that they can use to protect themselves from explosive remnants of war.
Unfortunately, the scale of the child protection risks to children affected by conflict is not matched by the scale of funding available to address these issues. New analysis by Humanitarian Funding Forecasting, commissioned by UNICEF, Save the Children, the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility, reveals that by 2024, the child protection sector will require USD 1.05 billion, increasing to USD 1.37 billion by 2026, to address the protection needs of children in armed conflict. This includes critical services like family reunification, mental health support, the prevention of recruitment into armed groups.
However, the study also indicates an impending funding shortfall. If the current pace of humanitarian funding continues, the projected shortfall would stand at USD 835 million in 2024, growing to USD 941 million by 2026. This gap could leave conflict-affected children exposed to the immediate and lasting impacts of war, child labor, trafficking, and violence.
As leaders convene in Oslo, UNICEF is calling for governments to make bold new commitments to uphold and operationalize the international laws and norms already in place to protect children in war – including to protect schools, hospitals and other protected objects like water and sanitation facilities from attack, to stop the recruitment and use of children by armed groups and forces, to stop the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.
UNICEF is also calling to hold perpetrators to account when children’s rights are violated and to step up with critical resources to fund the protection of children in conflict at the scale and speed required, in line with growing need. This must include investment in humanitarian response and in national child protection workforces.
UNICEF is also calling on humanitarian actors to invest in policies that place children and their protection at the centre of humanitarian action in situations of armed conflict.
“We must deliver a child protection response that is equal to the challenges we face,” said Russell. “We need to do everything we can to reach all children in need, particularly the most vulnerable. Protection services for children must build upon existing systems and community structures, and support children’s rights, participation, and their best interests. Programmes and advocacy in these contexts must unfailingly put children and their protection at the centre of humanitarian action.”
TRT: 2:52
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: SEE SHOTLISTS FOR DETAILS
SHOTLIST:
30 JANUARY 2023, BORODIANKA, UKRAINE
1. Med shot, 10-year-old Veronica visits the ruins of a high-rise building in the centre of Borodianka, Ukraine to feed street cats
28 SEPTEMBER 2022, LVIV, UKRAINE
2. Med shot, Eleven-year-old Artem from Kharkiv with attending medical staff
3. Wide shot, Eleven-year-old Artem with medical staff and mother
4. Close up, Eleven-year-old Artem from Kharkiv with attending medical staff
24 MARCH 2023, LYMAN, UKRAINE
5. Med shot, child walking by damaged window
6. Med shot, child at home with damaged window.
11 MAY 2023, EGYPT
7. Med shot, families in the first child friendly space established inside the "Karkar" bus station, in cooperation between UNICEF, Aswan Governorate, and the Directorate of Health and Population in Aswan, to provide psychosocial support to children and their families
8. Med shot, children in child friendly space
9. Med shot, child in child friendly space
10. Med shot, children’s drawings
15-17 NOVEMBER 2022, MOPTI REGION, MALI
11. Wide shot, Socoura displacement camp
12. Wide shot, displaced people in camp
13. Med shot, child in doorway of shelter
14. Wide shot, woman with baby walking into shelter
15. Wide shot, boy pulling toy car
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Foune Sanogo, 11 years old:
“That night we were sitting at home when the bandits came. People screamed and hid in their houses and locked their doors. When the attack was over, my mother and father said we needed to flee because it was too dangerous, and that’s how we came to be in Sevare.”
NOVEMBER 2020, SOUTH SUDAN
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anonymous child:
“When we were taken, they told us not to escape. If we did, they would find us again and kill us. So, I stayed.”
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anonymous child:
“ When they went with us, they said if anything happens we should fall down and not stand up as they would be in a position to defend us.”
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anonymous child:
“Life was very, very bad because of the thing I saw. They were killing people, slaughtering people, life was not good.”
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anonymous child:
“We were thinking of escaping but didn’t dare. One managed to escape, they caught him and they killed him in front of us.”
STORYLINE:
A staggering 315,000 grave violations against children in conflict were verified by the United Nations between 2005 and 2022, a stark illustration of the devastating impact of war and conflict on children.
As states, donors and the humanitarian community meet in Norway for the Oslo Conference on Protecting Children in Armed Conflict, UNICEF has reported that, since monitoring began in 2005, the UN has verified 315,000 grave violations committed by parties to conflict in more than 30 conflict situations across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
These include more than 120,000 children killed or maimed; at least 105,000 children recruited or used by armed forces or armed groups; more than 32,500 children abducted; more than 16,000 children subjected to sexual violence.
The UN has also verified more than 16,000 attacks on schools and hospitals, and more than 22,000 instances of denial of humanitarian access for children.
As these are just the cases that have been verified, the true toll is likely to be far higher.
Additionally, many millions more children have been displaced from their homes and communities, lost friends or family or been separated from parents or caregivers.
“Any war is ultimately a war on children,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “Exposure to conflict has catastrophic, life-changing effects for children. While we know what must be done to protect children from war, the world is not doing enough. Year after year, the UN documents the visceral, tragic and all too predictable ways that children’s lives are torn apart. It is incumbent on all of us to ensure that children do not pay the price for the wars of adults, and to take the bold, concrete action required to improve the protection of some of the world’s most vulnerable children.”
In this context, UNICEF has supported the care and protection of millions of affected children across conflict situations to enhance their well-being, including through the provision of mental health and psychosocial support, child protection case management, family tracing and reunification, and services for child survivors of gender-based violence. In 2022, UNICEF reached almost 12,500 children who exited armed forces or armed groups with reintegration or other protection support, and more than 9 million children with information that they can use to protect themselves from explosive remnants of war.
Unfortunately, the scale of the child protection risks to children affected by conflict is not matched by the scale of funding available to address these issues. New analysis by Humanitarian Funding Forecasting, commissioned by UNICEF, Save the Children, the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility, reveals that by 2024, the child protection sector will require USD 1.05 billion, increasing to USD 1.37 billion by 2026, to address the protection needs of children in armed conflict. This includes critical services like family reunification, mental health support, the prevention of recruitment into armed groups.
However, the study also indicates an impending funding shortfall. If the current pace of humanitarian funding continues, the projected shortfall would stand at USD 835 million in 2024, growing to USD 941 million by 2026. This gap could leave conflict-affected children exposed to the immediate and lasting impacts of war, child labor, trafficking, and violence.
As leaders convene in Oslo, UNICEF is calling for governments to make bold new commitments to uphold and operationalize the international laws and norms already in place to protect children in war – including to protect schools, hospitals and other protected objects like water and sanitation facilities from attack, to stop the recruitment and use of children by armed groups and forces, to stop the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.
UNICEF is also calling to hold perpetrators to account when children’s rights are violated and to step up with critical resources to fund the protection of children in conflict at the scale and speed required, in line with growing need. This must include investment in humanitarian response and in national child protection workforces.
UNICEF is also calling on humanitarian actors to invest in policies that place children and their protection at the centre of humanitarian action in situations of armed conflict.
“We must deliver a child protection response that is equal to the challenges we face,” said Russell. “We need to do everything we can to reach all children in need, particularly the most vulnerable. Protection services for children must build upon existing systems and community structures, and support children’s rights, participation, and their best interests. Programmes and advocacy in these contexts must unfailingly put children and their protection at the centre of humanitarian action.”
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