A civil war began in Syria in 2011. By 2018 hundreds of thousands of Syrians had been killed, millions had become refugees and many Syrian cities and towns had been reduced to rubble.
INVESTIGATE THE DATA 13
Over
MILLION PEOPLE IN SYRIA
need humanitarian assistance. Almost
HALF of them are children.
UNICEF is among the organisations trying to protect children and their rights in Syria. The data you see in this infographic refers to 2017 alone. Examine it and answer the questions that follow.
910 50%
almost
CHILDREN KILLED –
higher than 2016 and the highest number recorded since the conflict began in 2011.
THE WAR is the main cause of DEATH among adolescents in Syria. 9 OUT OF 10
CHILDREN RECRUITED,
nearly triple the 2015 number.
recruited children serve in COMBAT ROLES.
MILLION CHILDREN
are out of school.
1 in 3 UNDERSTAND
1. What evidence is there in this data that the war in Syria presents a major risk to children’s lives?
2. What evidence is there that children have lost their homes because of the war? 3. Name one worrying statistic about child soldiers in the Syrian conflict. 4. How is Syrian children’s right to education being negatively affected by the war?
5. Other than the right to education, identify two other human rights of children that are being threatened by the war.
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schools cannot be used because they are destroyed, damaged, sheltering displaced families or being used for military purposes.
