Statistics: Human Rights:
- Estimated that 20 million children are refugees or internally displaced because of armed conflicts.
- Worldwide, one in every three women will be sexually or physically abused during her lifetime; one in 5 will survive rape; 3 million women die each year from gender related violence.
- The UN estimates that almost 6 million children were in forced and bonded labor. 300,000 in armed conflict. Almost 2 million in prostitution and pornography. 600,000 drug trafficking. And over 1 million in slavery.
- 50 million unregistered children in the world - children who have no birth certificates.
- Over 200,000 children die each year as direct result of armed conflict, an additional 600,000 are injured or disabled, 10,000 alone are annually injured from land mines.
- Every minute that a person dies from armed conflict, in that same minute, 15 new weapons are made.
- In Uganda an AK-47 is the same price as a chicken.
- Darfur: 400,000 have been killed. More than 2.5 million displaced- 51 % of the region. 1.3 million children are living in refugee camps. Acute malnutrition has reached 27%.
- Liberia has an estimated 15,000 child soldiers. Africa has estimated 100,000 child soldiers, and 300,000 worldwide. Some are as young as 7.
- 17% of displaced households report sexual assaults.
- 1994 Rwanda, every female over the age of 12 who survived the genocide was raped; 800,000 people killed in 100 days of armed conflict.
- Congo, 27% of rape victims tested positive for HIV.
- Afghanistan has half a million widows after 3 decades of conflict.
- Estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked yearly.
- Estimated 1.8 million sexually exploited.
- 143 million children are orphans - 1 out of every 13.
- Estimated 40 million children are abused yearly.
- Estimated 246 million engaged in child labor.
- Estimated 171 million, with 73 million under 10, are working in hazardous conditions.
- 55% of births in developing countries go unreported; that's 50 million children with no identity.
- 130 million girls are subjected to genital mutilation.