AMMAN — Jordan marked Saturday the 20th
anniversary of the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of
Aggression, at a time when
UNHCR’s latest statistics indicate that about 46
percent of refugees in Jordan of various nationalities are children, Al-Ghad
News reported.
اضافة اعلان
Studies indicate that there are some 57
nationalities in Jordan, which the
UN refugee agency the UNHCR, said was the
world’s second highest refugee population.
According to the UNHCR’S latest survey released in
mid-May, the number of children refuges in Jordan is 350,000 out of 761,000
refuges of different nationalities.
While children in danger are around 30,000, there
are 2,162 children who have been separated from their parents, according to
UNHCR.
It said the proportion of children among
Syrian refugees rose to 48 percent reaching 327,000 out of 674,000 refugees, 28,000 of
whom are in danger, and around 2,000 children are separated from their parents.
Children make around 55 percent of the cash support
beneficiaries that are distributed on 124,014 individuals within 33,000
families, with Syrian refuges making up the majority of them, estimated at
115,000 individuals.
The UNHCR’s figures showed that about 80 percent of
refugee children are registered in school.
In August 1982, at its emergency special session on
the question of Palestine, the UN General Assembly, said it was “appalled at
the great number of innocent
Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of
Israel’s acts of aggression”, and decided to commemorate June 4 of each year as
the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
The purpose of the day is to acknowledge the pain
suffered by children throughout the world who are the victims of physical,
mental and emotional abuse. This day affirms the UN’s commitment to protect the
rights of children. Its work is guided by the
Convention on the Rights of theChild, the most rapidly and widely ratified international human rights treaty
in history.
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