UNICEF report finds 28 million children displaced by global conflict

2016-09-07 1

Roughly 28 million children have been forced out of their homes due to violent conflict, according to a UNICEF report released Tuesday. There were 10 million child refugees and one million child asylum-seekers. The remaining 17 million children displaced by conflict remained within their home countries' borders. The report said 45 percent of the children refugees came from just two countries: Syria and Afghanistan.