UNICEF Syrian Children

Syrian children: GENEVA - The number of Syrian children forced to flee their devastated homeland reached 1 million on Friday, half of all the refugees driven abroad by a conflict that shows no sign of ending, the United Nations said. , according to Reuters. "If we just realize that last year around this time we had 70,000 Syrian refugee children and today we have reached 1 million, that tells us something about the escalation of this crisis and the problems facing children," said Yoka Brandt, deputy executive director of UNICEF. By Stephanie Nebehay Another two million Syrian minors are uprooted within their country where they are often attacked, recruited as fighters, and deprived of their education, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and U.N. Children's Fund UNICEF said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.