Mubin Shaikh told the UN Security Council Tuesday that he’s haunted by a video image: A 3-year-old boy uses a large knife given to him by his parents to cut off his teddy bear’s head. Will he even live to 20?,” Shaikh asked at a council meeting on children and armed conflict. His annual report on children and armed conflict released in early October put the coalition on a UN blacklist for killing and injuring nearly 700 children in 2016. Last year, the U.S.-backed coalition was put on the blacklist but removed by then-Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon under intense pressure from Saudi Arabia. For the first time, the UN divided the new list into countries that are taking action to curb child casualties — as the Saudi coalition is — and those that aren’t.

Source: National Post November 01, 2017 04:05 UTC