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Stop Syria?s Children becoming a Lost Generation

UNICEF and partners today launched a new campaign No Lost Generation to bring the world?s attention to the 5.5 million children in Syria who need urgent education and psychological support to break the cycle of violence caused by almost three years of conflict.

New report exposes violence against children

The largest-ever compilation of data on violence against children shows the staggering extent of physical, sexual and emotional abuse -- and reveals the attitudes that perpetuate and justify violence, keeping it ?hidden in plain sight? in every country and community in the world.

40 child deaths reported in Iraq

According to official reports received by UNICEF, these children from the Yazidi minority died as a direct consequence of violence, displacement and dehydration over the past two days.