South Sudan: UNICEF warns women and children being victimized ‘with frightening regularity’

(UN News Centre) – Almost two years since the eruption of the conflict in South Sudan, the situation continues to deteriorate with women and small children making up the majority of most recent casualties, a representative from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the country said today. Speaking by phone from the capital, Juba, UNICEF Representative Jonathan Veitch confirmed to journalists in Geneva that dozens of children have been killed, raped and abducted in the Unity state over the previous two weeks. “The deliberate targeting of children in these attacks is an outrage,” said Mr. Veitch in a press statement issued by UNICEF.

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