18 June 2013
New York: The evolving nature and tactics of conflict are creating unprecedented threats for children, United Nations officials told the Security Council on Monday, stressing that despite progress in protecting youngsters during war, dangerous new trends are making them even more vulnerable. “As new conflicts emerged or deepened in the course of the past 18 months, children continued to pay a heavy toll, perhaps the heaviest,” the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui said in her presentation to the Council of the Secretary-General’s 12th annual report on the subject.