Save the Children ensures that at least ten children have been killed by the bombings in Ukraine by Russia, which has attacked six schools in that country, with which the NGO has called for the immediate cessation of the war to protect minors from violence and the violation of their rights.
In a statement, he affirms that the attacks on Ukrainian schools endanger the lives of the 7.5 million children in the country and insists that they must be “safe and inviolable” spaces for both children and teachers, ” with special protection even in a conflict scenario”.
The NGO confirms the death of at least ten minors and stresses that the latest data from the United Nations indicates that at least six educational centers have been bombed in recent days.
It reports that two teachers died on Friday when a missile hit a school in Gorlovka, in eastern Ukraine, and the United Nations has also confirmed, according to the NGO, the attack on a kindergarten and an orphanage, in the northeastern city of Okhtyrka , with a seven-year-old girl among the six people killed at that location.
Save the Children recalls that attacks on schools and hospitals are classified by the UN as one of the six serious violations committed against children.
In the statement, it collects the statements of Eva, a 15-year-old girl who managed to flee her town with her parents and who went to one of the bombed schools.
“My grandparents, many boys and girls, my classmates, the elderly and people who do not have the possibility of leaving have had to stay in the town, where one of every two houses has been damaged,” laments the young woman.
For all these reasons, the director of Save the Children for Eastern Europe, Irina Saghoyan, has called for “the immediate cessation of hostilities, as the only way to protect children from violence and other violations of their rights” .
Saghoyan has stressed that schools “must not become the battlefields where wars are fought” because “students are the victims”.
In this regard, he stressed that the protection of civilians and essential civilian infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals, “must be the absolute priority of all parties: it is their legal obligation to minimize the suffering of civilians in this conflict. ”.
Source: Gestion
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