Violence kills a child in every 5 minutes: UN

One child dies every five minutes as a result of violence, but only a minority die in war zones, according to a report by the UN children's agency Unicef.
About 75 percent of the estimated 345 violent deaths that occur daily happen in countries at peace, the report said.
"We are uncovering the fact that children experience extreme violence in everyday life, everywhere," Susan Bissell, global head of child protection for Unicef told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
In some countries, deaths from violence are rolling back gains made in preventing childhood deaths from disease or hunger.
"What is shocking is that we have for two or three decades focused a lot, and importantly, on child mortality from preventable diseases, and what this report says is that we need to be thinking about child mortality from all causes," Bissell said.
In Brazil, the number of children dying from preventable disease before the age of five has dropped since 2000, but almost 15,000 lives have been lost to violence in adolescence, said Leah Kreitzman, head of campaigns and advocacy for Unicef UK.
Millions of children are vulnerable to physical, sexual and emotional abuse in their homes, schools and communities.
"Children are getting their mental and physical health permanently damaged by violence every day," she added.
War amplifies and magnifies the violence that children normally experience every day.
Where there is a pejorative view of girls and boys, or where there is impunity and no rule of law, it simply becomes worse for children when war breaks out, Bissell said.
Education can help protect children in many conflicts. It gives children a sense of normality, but also can protect them from being recruited by armed groups.