Child Refugees: Omran Daqneesh and Executive Director

child refugees: Of that, 28 million kids have been forced to flee from their homes because of conflicts not of their making, according to Huffington Post Canada. The number of child refugees has also doubled between 2005 and 2015. The humanitarian organization says nearly 50 million children have been uprooted around the world because of war or poverty. In this image taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center, a child sits in an ambulance after being pulled out of a building hit by an airstrike in August. UNICEF executive director evoked a recent indelible image of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh — stunned and bloodied in an ambulance — to warn people against turning complacent amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis. They are a few of the key findings highlighted in UNICEF 129-page Uprooted report focused on the plight of refugee and migrant children. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.