Untreated trauma from seeing the killing of relatives, kidnapping by bandits or forced recruitment into armed groups, hunger and disease: these are among the problems experienced by thousands of internally displaced children in the Central African Republic, according to a new report.
“It will take a concerted effort on the part of both the government and the international community to redress this state of neglect,” urged the report, itself titled State of Neglect – Displaced Children in the Central African Republic, published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
STATE OF NEGLECT: Displaced Children in the Central African Republic
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“It will take a concerted effort on the part of both the government and the international community to redress this state of neglect,” urged the report, itself titled State of Neglect – Displaced Children in the Central African Republic, published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
STATE OF NEGLECT: Displaced Children in the Central African Republicam/bp
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