31. War Child and its work in protecting children
Child protection is about keeping kids safe from violence, exploitation and abuse.
It's an issue in every country - including here in the UK. We have strict laws, specialist social services teams and charities like the NSPCC and Barnardo's that are all in place specifically to prevent and respond to child protection violation. Serious and widespread child protection failures are thankfully fairly rare here.
But in conflict affected countries, child protection violations happen on a huge scale.
Children are killed or wounded by the fighting, some may be used as soldiers, many are forced to flee their homes or are separated from their parents. Sexual violence against girls is used as a weapon of war in some conflicts too.
