Human Security - Human Rights Facts

Wars today affect civilians most, since they are civil wars, guerrilla actions and ethnic disputes over territory or government. 3 out of 4 fatalities of war are women and children.
Over the past decade, armed conflict has killed 2 million children, disabled 4 to 5 million, left 12 million homeless and more than 1 million orphaned or separated from their parents.
In times of conflict, women and children are sometimes sold into forced servitude and slavery.
75% of the refugees and internally displaced in the world are women who have lost their families and their homes.
In the former Yugoslavia, 20,000 women and girls were raped during the first months of the war.
In the last decade there were about 300,000 child soldiers.
There are approximately 250 million child labourers worldwide: Asia accounts for 153 million and Africa for 80 million.