Beyond the rubble: eight ways urban warfare affects children
Aug 22, 2024 · Eight ways children are affected by urban warfare; recommendations that states, NSAGs and humanitarians can implement to protect children.
‘Layers of vulnerability’: The children growing up in urban war
12 Jun 2023. Marwa, an activist who advocates for vulnerable communities, describes the terror of growing up during the war in Yemen at an event on protecting children in urban warfare...
Childhood in Rubble: The Humanitarian Consequences of Urban …
Landmines, airstrikes, snipers – in cities across the world, children's lives and future are irrevocably changed by urban warfare. Urban warfare causes a staggering number of death and injury among civilians. It disrupts families, destroys homes, and displaces whole communities.
Countries in Conflict: Worst Places to Be A Child
Children living in war-affected countries live in constant fear, experiencing grave violations of their rights, with serious impacts on their mental health. Many children living in lethal war zones are already at risk of climate change and facing unprecedented levels of hunger as well.
Stop the War on Children
Since 2005, the UN has reported and verified six specified grave violations against children in situations of conflict. These are presented in annual United Nations reports on children and armed conflict.
Children’s safety in the urban context can be compromised in unique ways: exploitative labour, living and working on the street, traficking, unsafe infrastructure, vehicular trafic, overcrowding, unsafe passage to school, armed violence, criminal gang activity and unsafe public places.
EVENT: Protecting Children During War in Cities
Oct 31, 2023 · Landmines, airstrikes, snipers – in cities across the world, children's lives and futures are irrevocably changed by urban warfare. Urban warfare causes a staggering number of deaths and injuries among civilians. It disrupts families, destroys homes, and …
Prevention, Protection and Participation: Children Affected by …
Feb 24, 2021 · This article will explore the typology of violence embedded in fragile and conflict environments, the disproportionate impact of forced migration on children affected by conflict, how these interconnected forms of violence are gendered, and the importance of participatory and preventative action.
Mental health provision for children affected by war and armed ...
Jun 15, 2024 · The aim of this paper is to critically evaluate the evidence from a child mental health service perspective across war conflicts, sociocultural contexts and systems, and to highlight implications for practice, service development, capacity-building and future research.
“This is my story”: Children's war memoirs and challenging ...
Aug 1, 2019 · Children's war memoirs show children who, even when violence and conflict overwhelm their lives, find ways of navigating, resisting, surviving amidst conflict.