Syrian Network For Human Rights, 22 Nov. 2016- On the United Nations Universal Children’s Day, SNHR has released its yearly special report that documents the violations against children by the influential parties in Syria. The report was entitled: “The Bleeding Innocence”
According to the report, The children of Syria have been the victim of all sorts of violations since March 20 11 their schools are being systematically targeted by the Syrian regime and its allies who are, evidently, deliberately targeting the future generations of Syria in retaliation of the areas that called for changing the ruling regime and sought to repel against its control. The Syrian regime and its allies (foreign militias and Russian forces) absolutely top all other parties with a percentage of 94% of all violations perpetrated.
The report says that the children of Syria suffered from cumulative ramifications that resulted from the daily bombing and destruction where approximately 3768 schools and kindergartens were damaged in attacks which made more than 2.5 million Syrian children lose access to an education. Also, the health sector was damaged and the vaccination rates dropped and diseases spread out such as tuberculosis and typhoid, and wide parts of the infrastructure was destroyed which also resulted in the spread of hepatitis as a result of drinking wells water. With the nearly complete destruction of so many neighborhoods, Syrian families had no choice but to seek refuge which emerged a new suffering of a new kind as 60% of the total of children refugees were deprived of an education and they were used as laborers. Additionally, we recorded a number of sexual violence cases against children inside and outside Syria and the rates of early marriages soared alarmingly. No less than 160,000 children refugees were born in refugee camps and many of them didn’t get any sort of documentation or papers.
The report draws upon SNHR archive that have been built through ongoing and daily monitoring and documentation since 2011. All the statistics are recorded with names, pictures, place and date of death or detention, and other details.