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Serious human rights violations, such as killing of women and children continue to be reported.
3,500 children were recruited and/or used by armed groups in CAR during the fighting in the first half of 2013. With the recent deterioration of the security situation and the expansion of various armed groups, as well as the mobilization of communities into self-defense armed groups, UNICEF estimates that an additional 1,500 to 2,500 boys and girls are now potentially associated with armed groups.
Increased clashes between local self-defence groups, and other armed elements, has triggered mass displacements. The number of displaced people has more than doubled in the last 10 weeks, from 185,000 to 394,000.
The majority of the displaced are women and children in urgent need of protection, access to safe water, sanitation, healthcare, food and shelter.
UNICEF providing life-saving interventions to people displaced by violence.In Bossangoa, 40,000 internally displaced people remain in makeshift camps.
Malnutrition likely to worsen with the on-set of the ‘hunger season’ in January 2014. Conflict has forced people to abandon their crops.
Third Party Monitoring of UNICEF programmes is ready to be rolled out in the most affected areas of the country (Bangui, Bossangoa, Kaga-Bandoro and Bambari).