The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

UNICEF: 50 million children uprooted globally

The United Nations Children’s Fund says some 50 million children have been “uprooted” across the globe, calling on world nations to show “compassion” for such minors.

In a report titled “Uprooted: The Growing Crisis for Refugee and Migrant Children,” UNICEF said almost 50 million children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced within their own countries.

The report said the number of child refugees jumped by about 75 percent between 2010 and 2015.

The children have been forcibly displaced from their home countries as a result of violent conflicts or persecution, said Anthony Lake, the UNICEF’s executive director, in a statement on Wednesday.

Lake said the unforgettable images of children such as Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy of Kurdish ethnicity whose body washed up on a Turkish beach in September 2015, “have shocked the world.”