Nearly 50 million children ‘uprooted’ worldwide: UNICEFAlmost 50 million children throughout the world are “uprooted,” forcibly displaced from their home countries by war, violence or persecution, the United Nations children’s program said Wednesday. There were also one million asylum seekers whose refugee status is pending and approximately 17 million children displaced within their own countries lacking access to humanitarian aid and critical services. Some 20 million other children have left their homes for various reasons including gang violence or extreme poverty. UNICEF pointed to children accounting for a “disproportionate and growing proportion” of people seeking refuge outside their birth countries. “We’d like to see some clear commitments and practical measures,” UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth told journalists in New York.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 07, 2016 03:33 UTC