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“UNICEF Report: Almost 50 Million Children Displaced”

Evaluation and Expanding on the UNICEF Article

By Chloe LarsonPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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Picture Source: uk.reuters.com

Imagine being all alone, detached from your home and possibly your family. Fleeing from inevitable issues, wondering when you can ever return home. In present time, that is how life is for nearly fifty-million children around the world, according to a recent UNICEF—United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund—report. Notably, the reasoning for there being so many suffering children refugees is the impact of certain areas fraught of great political and economic disruption. With continually increasing rates of children refugees, it is fundamental to understand how this refugee crisis will not only impact the children.

Subsequently, more than half of all refugees are children. With today's population, records show that out of every 200 children, one of them is a refugee. Although to some people that may not seem like much, the rate could increase in the future if this problem is ignored. As noted in the UNICEF report, within the past five years, the rate of children being classified as a refugee has largely elevated by 75%. Even the number of children escaping alone is on the high-rise. As highlighted in recent reports, examples of children facing conflict like Alan Kurdi and Omran Daqneesh were both in areas of the world that are facing political issues that resulted in violent actions. Omran was found covered in dirt and blood after his family’s home was bombed in Syria. Alan was discovered face down in the water on a Turkish Beach.

Granted that this issue has brought up a lot of controversy over what should be done to fix this or how this issue affects the children, there are many perspectives listed in this CNN article that may reflect how people see this issue. In Justin Forsyth’s view, deputy executive director of UNICEF told CNN, “Often parents are judging that their children would be safer to move than to stay put and that’s a terrible decision.” Thus potentially stating, that staying in the area of conflict exposure would be safer to live in, than to travel away from the issue. Although, that did not seem to work out for the two children, Alan Kurdi and Omran Daqneesh, with their stories noted in the paragraph above. In a like manner, a UK deputy executive director of UNICEF, Lily Caprani, builds her point of view off a statistic by announcing to CNN, “In the last few years we have seen huge numbers of children being forced to flee their homes, and take dangerous desperate journeys, often on their own.” Capnari goes on the subject of this by stating “Children on the move are at risk of the worst forms of abuse and harm and can easily fall victim to traffickers and other criminals.” As for child victims like a young Nigerian girl who was abducted by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, the girl was kept captive in a prison where she was raped repeatedly and then sold. With regards to this, the UNICEF report mentions that boys are at risk to be forced into armed group, while girls are at risk for being abducted into sexual violence. Consequently, UNICEF feels strongly to urge others to help these children to avoid these situations. “Every child that has suffered, died, is a reminder of this huge challenge that we face… Every one of them deserves our help,” Forsyth expresses to CNN.

As a final point, this article from CNN was primarily focused around the standard of living for the child refugees. Whether they fled from an area of a political system breakdown or an area of high-conflict level, these children are on the run away from a place they once called home, with or without a family. Throughout this report, UNICEF advocates loudly that this ever increasing rate of child refugees needs to be slowed down or even stopped for a matter and that these children are desperately in need of help. Moreover, it is presumed that these children are on the line at all times. With boys being stolen for army reasons and girls being abducted for sexual purposes, we can only hope that this issue of child refugees will be assessed appropriately and a cure arises.

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Chloe Larson

I write research papers on global issues, short stories and occasionally casual articles.

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