Global conflicts killed three times as many children and twice as many women in 2023 than in the previous year, as overall civilian fatalities swelled 72 percent, the UN said Tuesday.
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A Palestinian boy sits as people search the rubble of the Harb family home destroyed in overnight Israeli strikes in al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on June 18, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas movement. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)
2024-06-19 13:27:43
Global conflicts killed three times as many children and twice as many women in 2023 than in the previous year, as overall civilian fatalities swelled 72 percent, the UN said Tuesday.
Warring parties were increasingly "pushing beyond boundaries of what is acceptable -- and legal", United Nations rights chief Volker Turk told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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