Manuel Fontaine, Unicef Director of Emergency Programmes, says: "Children are being targeted and exposed to attacks and brutal violence in their homes, schools and playgrounds". They are victims of conflicts, abuses, malnutrition, deseases, traumas, forced marriages.

In 2017, the most involved countries have been: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Central African Republic, Kasai (RDC), Nigeria, Cameroon, Myanmar, South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Eastern Ukraine.

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