Children pay the high price of Iraq violence: UNICEF

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — The lives of millions of Iraqi children are still blighted by violence, poor nutrition and disrupted education more than four years after the US-led invasion, UNICEF said on Friday.

The United Nations Children's Fund said in a report that few teenagers took their final exams last summer, safe drinking water remained scarce and about 1,350 children were detained by the authorities in 2007.

It also said that on average 25,000 children and their families were forced out of their homes each month to seek shelter in other parts of the country.

UNICEF said that the current reduction in violence provided a chance to help Iraqi children, gain access to those in detention, and strengthen government structures focused on young people.

"Iraqi children are paying far too high a price," said Roger Wright, UNICEF's special representative for Iraq, in the report.

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