OTTAWA – Call it the year of growing up dangerously. From Iraq to Syria, the Central African Republic to South Sudan, to the classrooms of Nigeria and Pakistan, to the beaches of Gaza — 2014 was a spectacularly unsafe year to be a child in some parts of the world. One piece of evidence is the recent report of the United Nations Children’s Fund which called 2014 a year of “horror, fear and despair” for children. “Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality,” UNICEF chief Anthony Lake declared on Dec. 8 when...
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