For women, it is a lifetime of guilt and blame

A recent UNICEF report revealed that children are displaced, injured or killed with alarming frequency by conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. The numbers make for horrific reading: more than 12 million children were reported displaced during conflicts in the region in less than two years, more than 40,000 were maimed, and almost 20,000 killed. This equates to one child displaced every five seconds, and one child killed or maimed every 15 minutes. If the parents of the children included in the report survived, they face a lifetime of misery and guilt.