New York, May 16 -- Fifteen million children in Yemen are asking you to save their lives” the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) told the 15 members of the Security Council on Wednesday, in an impassioned plea for action to end four years of fighting which has left at least 7,300 children killed or seriously injured.
These are verified numbers. The actual numbers are no doubt higher, said Henrietta Fore, who began her address with a quiet intensity, telling the horrifying but tragically now mundane story of how one classroom was shattered by shrapnel last month in the capital Sanaa: Imagine the pain endured by the families of the 14 children who never made it home...In any conflict, children suffer first. And worst...