Increasingly, children have become the targets and even the perpetrators of violence and atrocities.” With all standards abandoned, human rights violations against children and women occur in unprecedented numbers. Any and all tactics are employed, from systematic rape, to scorched-earth tactics that destroy crops and poison wells, to ethnic cleansing and genocide.
She added that “the struggles that claim more civilians than soldiers have been marked by horrific levels of violence and brutality. On 26 August 1996, the report she presented to the General Assembly described conflicts in which “othing was spared, held sacred or protected – not children, families or communities.” Twenty years ago, Graça Machel’s report “ Impact of armed conflict on children”, asked the international community to come together to address the plight of children affected by war.įor two years, Machel had travelled to conflict zones and met children, families, humanitarian workers and Government officials to better understand what boys and girls were going through.
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