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UNICEF labels Afghanistan a major weapons-contaminated country
(Last Updated On: August 24, 2023)
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced that Afghanistan is one of the most weapons-contaminated countries in the world with all kinds of weapons, mines and unexploded ordnances, and children make up 85% of the victims of explosions in this country.
According to UNICEF, experts of this institution along with the EU in Afghanistan teaches children to recognize and avoid unexploded ordnances, using practice settings like this at a child-friendly space.
This is while the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) recently announced that more than 700 children were killed or injured in Afghanistan due to the explosion of land mines, explosives and improvised explosive devices.