NEW YORK “Today there are 250 million children around the world living in areas under conflict. Each of these children needs warring parties to heed the call of the UN Secretary General to lay down their weapons as part of a global ceasefire to confront the COVID-19 pandemic. Each of these children needs to finally be safe from the violence.“Parties to conflict will not be able to fight COVID-19 while still fighting each other. “Yet nearly a month on from the Secretary General’s appeal, violent conflict continues to be waged in parts of Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen, among others. “To the children living through these waking nightmares, a ceasefire could mean the difference between life and death. “A global ceasefire would protect children from being killed, maimed or forced from their homes by conflict.— AFP
