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Category Archives: VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

CHILDREN IN BOKO HARAM AFFECTED AREAS NEED URGENT PROTECTION – SAYS UN OFFICIAL

VISITING Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, has called for urgent steps to protect children from Boko Haram and what she described as ‘relentless violence’. Zerrougui, who is in Nigeria on a week-long fact-finding mission, lamented how children growing up in Nigeria’s …