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3,758 School Backpacks Laid at the United Nations Show the Grave Scale of Child Deaths in Conflict in 2018
September 08, 2019
NEW YORK, Sept. 8 -- United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) issued the following news release:

A UNICEF installation to show the devastating scale of child deaths in conflict zones in 2018 was unveiled today at the United Nations in New York. The haunting display features 3,758 backpacks in rows reminiscent of a graveyard, each one representing a senseless loss of a young life to conflict.

The installation, which will run through 10 Septemb . . .

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