Citation

Sargent W, Wild H, Mayhew E, Wren SM. Lancet Child Adolesc. Health 2021; 5(6): 391-392.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S2352-4642(21)00132-2

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Abstract

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate news headlines, little attention has been given to the announcement that the USA and UK will withdraw combat forces deployed to the so-called war on terror in Afghanistan. Protracted conflicts in the Middle East (eg, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan) and Africa (eg, Libya and the Sahel) continue unabated and under-reported, with well over 100 000 conflict-related deaths in 2020. The toll on populations, especially children, is a shameful signal lost in the noise of other world events. The number of children living in conflict zones has doubled since 1991, such that by 2017, nearly a fifth of the world's children--420 million--lived in conflict-affected areas. The UN report on children and armed conflict shows the annual number of children killed and injured in conflict has exceeded 10 000 since 2014, with a dramatic rise over the past 15 years...

Keywords: Violence

Language: en