Aid group pleads with UN to help Syria's children | JPost | Israel News
clip from article: "From the very beginning of the crisis in Syria, children have been its forgotten victims - facing death, trauma and suffering, and deprived of basic humanitarian aid," Save the Children said in a report presented to the 15-nation council on Monday.
"Children are increasingly being put directly in harm's way as they are being recruited by armed groups and (government-aligned) forces," it said. "There have even been reports that children as young as 8 have been used as human shields." The threat to children begins before they are born, it said. Since hospitals and health workers are being attacked, women are reluctant to go to hospitals. It added that nearly 2 million Syrian children were in need of aid.
"This means more births are taking place at home, without a skilled birth attendant," the report said, adding that access to food was also a serious problem for Syrian families.
Save the Children, a US-based non-governmental charity organization, said last month that Syria's children were being shot at, tortured and raped." [read more at link]
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