Syrian children 'scarred for life', say UN

The UN’s top human rights official has urged nations to save Syria’s embattled and dying children and to rally behind a 14-year-old girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting female education.

Syrian children 'scarred for life', say UN

The UN’s top human rights official has urged nations to save Syria’s embattled and dying children and to rally behind a 14-year-old girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting female education.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says many Syrian children “will be scarred for life” at the hands of their government, army or neighbours in a conflict activists say has killed more than 33,000 people since March 2011.

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