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  1. “Let us be clear - as long as the violence continues, children in Syria will continue to suffer. UNICEF renews its call on all parties to lift the sieges across Syria, and to allow and facilitate immediate, unconditional and sustained humanitarian access to all areas of the country. We call upon the parties to uphold their obligations to protect children. These are their children and their future. They are in their hands. Until the guns are silenced and remain silent, children in Syria will continue to ask us why.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source

  2. “The protection of children should be, at all times, a primary consideration for all of us. We have failed them over the past six years and we continue to fail the children in Syria. Our failure is not onlyjeopardizing children's lives, but the future of the country, the region and the whole world. UNICEF and its partners will continue to do everything we can to provide assistance to children and their families in Syria, wherever they may reside. In that connection, I take this opportunity to thank the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O'Brien, for their tireless support and determination to help us reach those children in need.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source

  3. “We have all seen the images - brave men and women pulling babies' bodies out from under the rubble; babies taken out of incubators because of attacks on hospitals; little boys and girls, many injured, pleading for help or dead. Yesterday, many of us saw the girl in the pink coat, standing shocked, terrified and confused amidst the shelling - searching for her father, whom she lost in the chaos of havoc and violence. Children ask us Why; we ask why. This devastating downward spiral must end. Today, every Syrian child under the age of five has known nothing but a lifetime shaped by war. Until recently, over 90 per cent of them attended school, nearly all children were regularly vaccinated and malnutrition was almost non-existent. Syria was among the first Arab countries to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source

  4. “Imagine how many more remain unreported or unconfirmed. As the violence continues to intensify in Aleppo, children will continue to pay a heavy price. These children ask why their loved ones have died. Mothers and fathers in Aleppo feel helpless as they struggle to feed their children while the prices of food and other commodities have almost doubled, putting children at serious risk of malnutrition. Violence, displacement and roadblocks mean that many children can no longer access life-saving health care. Every checkpoint crossed presents a set of dangers for children: the risk of being exploited, the risk ofbeing recruited or the risk of simply getting caught in the crossfire.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source

  5. “The violence has destroyed water infrastructure and, in some cases, parties to the conflict have deliberately cut off water supplies as a war tactic. Earlier this year, UNICEF reported that water in Aleppo was shut off for 48 days. Since the beginning of the conflict, families all over Syria have been reporting grave violations against their children - committed by all parties. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict has briefed the Council on a regular basis regarding those violations. The United Nations verified 1,500 grave violations in 2015 alone, including killing, maiming, the recruitment and use of children by parties to the conflict, abduction, attacks on schools and hospitals and the denial of humanitarian access. Harrowing as these numbers are, they represent only verified cases.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source

  6. “Schools have come under relentless attack all over the country. This year has been particularly devastating for education. Since the beginning of 2016, the United Nations has documented 84 attacks on schools across Syria, with at least 69 children losing their lives and many more injured. Across the country, more than 7,000 schools can no longer be used because they are either destroyed, damaged, are sheltering displaced families or are being used for military purposes. Today, 1.7 million children in Syria are out of school. In the worst areas, safe water is either scarce or too costly. In collective shelters or households hosting displaced families, toilets have to be shared by dozens of people and sanitary conditions are extremely poor. Only one-third of Syria's sewage is now being treated.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source

  7. “During the month of October alone, UNICEF and its partners reached 2.9 million Syrians with urgently needed assistance, including nearly 350,000 in besieged and hard-to-reach areas. Since January, over 3 million children under five have been vaccinated through polio campaigns. Back-to-learning supplies have reached nearly 3 million children. Urgent maintenance to water and sanitation systems have allowed millions to access safe water. And essential nutrition supplies have reached nearly 300,000 children in besieged and hard-to-reach areas through inter-agency convoys. Working together with our partners, we can and have made life just a little more bearable for Syrian children. Sadly, however, we often fail - not due to a lack of commitment or a lack of readiness. As those children wait for us, they wonder why.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source

  8. “Beyond the grim situation in Aleppo, we estimate that some 6 million children inside Syria are in need of humanitarian assistance. Over 2 million of these children are living in hard-to-reach areas, which humanitarian agencies cannot access on a regular basis. Nearly half a million children live under siege, cut off from humanitarian aid and basic services for months at a time. Some of these children have been living under siege for two years. UNICEF and partners strive on a daily basis to deliver timely and quality assistance to the most vulnerable children throughout Syria. Allow me to take this opportunity to pay tribute to all humanitarians working courageously on the front lines for Syrian children. When we have access, we can achieve a great deal.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source

  9. “UNICEF colleagues could barely look into the eyes of the father suffering so much pain. As the Council heard last week, the health system in eastern Aleppo is crumbling. Doctors on the ground told UNICEF that children with poor chances of survival are often simply left to die due to limited capacity and supplies. The violence must stop. Nothing justifies the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, especially children. Parties to the conflict must protect civilians, not least children, and allow immediate access for humanitarian agencies to provide life-saving assistance. UNICEF, together with its partners, have been standing and continue to stand ready to respond immediately as soon as a humanitarian pause is agreed.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source

  10. “Children are wondering why no one is doing more to make this stop. Amir, a five-year-old boy, is one of those children. Our team met him in Aleppo very recently. He and his sister were playing outside when their house was shelled. His sister was injured in the face and eye, while Amir sustained severe burns all over his body. He had to undergo two painful surgeries to replace the burned skin in one of the very few remaining health facilities in Aleppo. Harsh as it may sound, Amir was lucky. Too many children today are not as lucky. In western Aleppo, we met a father living with the trauma and deep regret of simply letting his eight and ten-year-old daughters go to school. They left their makeshift home one morning with their schoolbags on their back. Only their lifeless bodies returned after a shell slammed into their classroom.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source

  11. “We must ask ourselves: What is left of childhood for the boys and girls of Syria? We have just heard from my colleague, Mr. Stephen O'Brien, about how devastating the past few days have been for the people of Aleppo. As we consider the events unfolding there, I would like us all to pause for a moment and imagine life through the eyes of a child who is trapped in that tragic situation. As a boy or girl in Aleppo today, where do you find comfort and hope amid the bombs? Determined to learn, you attend school whenever your parents allow you to leave the house, but you do not know any more if you will ever come back. It is hard for you as a child to focus because it is cold and you do not sleep well, haunted by nightmares and hunger. Children are wondering why this is happening.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source

  12. “Mr. Cappelaere: I am grateful for the opportunity to address the Security Council today on the plight of children in Syria. To say that their situation is tragic would be an understatement. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine what words could still adequately convey the unspeakable horrors endured by Syria's children every day. Tens of thousands of children have already been killed. Millions have been uprooted from their homes, some more than once. Too many have been deprived of basic medical care and safe drinking water. Too many have witnessed the deaths of their loved ones and the destruction of the places they once thought are safe: their homes, their schools, their playgrounds and their hospitals. Simply put, Syria's children are trapped in a living nightmare.”

    2016-11-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7822 (2016) · source