SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2014, para. 75
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- [Children’s access to health care in times of armed conflict]: Armed conflict is a major public health hazard, and this is often overlooked. Tens of thousands of children die every year as a direct result of fighting. Furthermore, children die from malnutrition and disease caused or accentuated by armed conflicts. In many instances, conflict kills and injures more children than soldiers. Health professionals are crucial advocates for the rights of the child. Humanitarian and human rights organizations, including the World Health Organization, Physicians for Human Rights, the Centre for Victims of Torture, and the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, actively advocate for the right of children to have access to medical care, especially in times of armed conflict.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 75
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