UN Population Fund sounds alarm over dire situation facing women and girls in Syria after 10 years of war
UN Population Fund sounds alarm over dire situation facing women and girls in Syria after 10 years of war © UNICEF/Bakr Alkasem A girl holds a child in the hallway of a school-turned shelter in Tal Abyad of north Ar-Raqqa in Syria, as the conflict enters its 10th year. 16 March 2020 Women The UN sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA, is expressing increasing concern about the women and girls trapped in Syria’s dire and escalating humanitarian crisis, especially in the north-west, where hostilities have caused mass displacement, human suffering and damage to civilian facilities. Women and girls continue to bear the brunt of the crisis, struggling to survive and care for traumatized children, as the conflict enters its 10th year, said the agency. Some 960,000 are estimated to have been displaced since December, 80 p...