Save the Children Statement: Global Ceasefire Could Help Protect the Lives of 415 Million Children
March 24, 2020
March 24, 2020
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 24 -- Save the Children issued the following statement by President and CEO Janti Soeripto on the plea by the UN Secretary General for a global ceasefire amid the coronavirus crisis:
"There are 415 million children living in conflict--they are dying from violence, recruited and abducted, detained and abused. Now they face the added risk of losing loved ones to the virus or being infected themselves.
"It is impossible to properly f . . .
"There are 415 million children living in conflict--they are dying from violence, recruited and abducted, detained and abused. Now they face the added risk of losing loved ones to the virus or being infected themselves.
"It is impossible to properly f . . .