UNITED NATIONS: Younger people are facing an unprecedented wave of violence and physical abuse driven by conflict, climate change, poverty, and movement, the UN’s specific rep on violence against children has warned.
” Kids are not responsible for battle. They are not liable for weather problems. And they are paying a huge ( price ),” said Najat Maalla M’jid, the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children.
” Violence against children has reached unprecedented rates, caused by varied and connected problems,” she said.
M’jid, a physician from Morocco, did on Thursday provide a damning statement to a UN conference showing that terrible violence against children is rife, and that tech is facilitating offences against young people as never before.
” Ending crime is possible, and it makes financial feel,” M’jid told AFP, stressing that many people worldwide are committed to ending the plague.
” The problem is how we can support them, to put all these ( solutions ) at scale. “
But the situation is dire, her striking report displays.
Over 450 million children lived in conflict areas as of the end of 2022, 40 percent of the 120 million displaced people at the end of April were children, and 333 million kids live in extreme poverty.
That is compounded by more than 1 billion children who are at higher risk of being affected by weather shift, which M’jid calls a threat multiplier.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among 15-19 year olds, with 46,000 people between the ages of 10 and 19 taking their life every month.
– ‘ Families of the future ‘-
Baby wedding is a common plague, M’jid warns, with as many as 640 million sufferers of the process.
As many as 370 million women and girls were content to murder or other physical assault during their adolescence, according to a separate document by Unicef.
” Children could become victim of baby abuse, online or offline. They could be victims of child labour, of slavery, of some things… even of children in military fight,” M’jid said.
She warned that with battle and violence becoming embedded in many cultures worldwide, such as Sudan and Haiti, “violence becomes standard. “
” When your kids are experiencing violence since their early childhood, seeing just that… how are you going to cope with all this? “
Violence against children has a ripple effect, damaging their mental heath, impairing their knowledge and stymying their performance later in life, the statement argues.
” Yet if you look at it from the perspective of the cost, it is 11 percent of the regional GDP in some places,” M’jid warned.
The answer lies in a planned approach to public spending, engagement of organization and civil society, and supporting children themselves, she said.
But squeezed costs and the increase of liberal policies on physical wellbeing and reproduction rights risk holding up efforts to combat violence against children, M’jid warned.
” The issue of the far-right wing and conservatism in many countries will also set back some forms of action regarding sexual reproductive health ( and ) gender issues,” M’jid said.
” We are facing a very difficult moment,” she added.
” These children will be the parents of the future generation. “
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