News
Tuesday, 30 Nov 2021
Syria and Yemen Top Statistic on Number of Children at Risk of Recruitment by Armed Actors
Save the Children's report Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment shows that, in 2020, almost all children in Syria and Yemen were at risk of recruitment by armed actors.
Podcast Episode
Thursday, 2 Dec 2021
66- Children in Conflict
In 2020, 1.6 billion children were living in a conflict-ridden country. Approximately 452 million children – more than one in six – were living less than 50 km from where the actual fighting took place.
For the last few years PRIO and Save the Children have collaborated on the Children in Conflict project which illuminates the number of children affected by violent conflict around the world. Updates have expanded to include children living in conflict zones where they are at risk for sexual violence.
In this episode Gudrun Østby, Ragnhild Nordås, and Roos van der Haer talk about this research collaboration.
Related material
- Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment (Save the Children report)
- Children at Risk of Being Recruited for Armed Conflict, 1990–2020 (PRIO Policy Brief)
- 1 in 8 children are at risk of being recruited by armed actors (PRIO Blog post)
- Children Affected by Armed Conflict, 1990–2020 (PRIO Policy Brief)
News
Tuesday, 30 Nov 2021
Record Number of Children at Risk of Being Recruited by Armed Actors
Today, Save the Children launched its new report Stop the War on Children: A crisis of recruitment. The report is based on a new mapping of children at risk of being recruited or used in armed conflict conducted at PRIO, as well an update of the yearly estimation of children living in conflict zones. The findings are alarming. In 2020, approximately 337 million children, or more than 1 in 8 children, were living in a conflict zone in which one or more actors recruited children. This is the highest recorded number of children at risk of being recruited by armed actors.
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