besieged areas.

Neighbouring countries are also suffering the dire consequences of this humanitarian crisis, with the influx of more than four million refugees. They have fled their homes and made dangerous journeys seeking a safe place to live. UNICEF has staff and partners on the ground in all the affected countries in the region, providing critical help and supplies to families and children in refugee camps and host communities to ensure that children have the access to health, education and protection that is their right. And to ensure that they have the time and space to play and just be kids."

A generation at risk

"As we read the uplifting stories this week of the Syrian children welcomed to Canada beginning their first semester in their new schools, I am remindedA British teenage girl tricked into a forced marriage in Bangladesh was seen “running and screaming” from her family during her rescue, Leeds Crown Court has heard.

Intervention from the British consulate only came after the “highly Westernised” 19-year-old secretly contacted her boyfriend in the UK, a court heard Monday.

The alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claimed that her parents tricked her into going on a family holiday to Bangladesh on July 3rd, 2016, with the intention of forcing her to marry her first cousin, reports the Yorkshire Evening Post.

Both parents, who require a Bengali interpreter in court, deny charges that they attempted to coerce their daughter into marrying against her will.

The jury heard her boyfriend, who also cannot be named for legal reasons, had become