UNICEF Seeks Funds for 'New Generation of Crises'

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has launched its biggest ever appeal for US$3.1 billion to help 62 million children at risk from a ‘new generation of humanitarian crises’.

UNICEF's director of emergency programmes, Afshan Khan, "From deadly natural disasters to brutal conflicts and fast-spreading epidemics, children across the world are facing a new generation of humanitarian crises."

Khan says that although child fighters were recruited in earlier wars in poorer countries, it was now increasingly becoming common in middle-income nations such as Syria.

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