Also, one of the principles of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma.

Dr. David Schwartz UNICEF clinic for war traumatized children

More than 2,000 children are being assisted through the UNICEF child trauma project.

Research conducted in Gaza from 1990 to 1998 has shown that up to 40 per cent of children from 6 to 12 years of age suffer from moderate to severe post traumatic stress disorder, while up to 70 per cent suffer from mild post traumatic stress disorder.

A special focus was placed on unaccompanied and traumatized children.

Special assistance has been extended to unaccompanied, traumatized minors and other children in distress.

Children not severely damaged by incest with a parent , Traumatic Abuse and Neglect of Children at Home, Eds. G.J. Williams and J. Money, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1980, pp. 455 465

The wounds incurred from racism are first and foremost psychological.

It is clear that it is the fact of taking part in acts of war that traumatizes a child.

Some 425 children were injured in 1997.

(Mr. Sahlool, Sudan)

Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress.

Children coming from households affected by the disease or those psychologically traumatized suffer from emotional problems.

For every child killed, there were another three injured, debilitated or psychologically scarred. His delegation therefore welcomed the appointment of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for children in armed conflict.

The four boys who brought evidence against him all had severe psychological scars from this episode in their earlier life.

Efforts are currently being made to (a) prevent disabilities among 20 per cent of the child population who are hardest to reach (b) prevent disabilities, trauma and injuries from landmines and protect children at risk in countries affected by armed conflict (c) prevent birth related trauma and injuries and brain damage and (d) ensure and sustain preventive health and nutrition measures for the care and development of the young child.

80. The Special Representative notes the vulnerable status of children and calls on the international community to assist Rwanda in ensuring that children survivors of the genocide receive appropriate trauma counselling and that all children have access to education.

One of the themes that comes through very strongly in the piece we just watched is this sense of the psychological trauma of the young that have to play this role of being child soldiers.

Traumatic experiences

In the U.K. we have an epidemic of facial injuries among young people.

In order to provide shelter for abused women and children and to create a suitable and conducive environment for traumatized victims, the Namibian Police established the Women and Child Protection Units (WCPU's).

Some have been permanently traumatized by the events they have witnessed and experienced.

(i) Interviewing and assessment techniques that minimize any trauma to the child while maximizing the quality of information received from the child

Traumas and poisoning

Show me a wound.

The number of injured in car accidents in 1991 was 234 per 100,000 people.

Psychologically traumatized by the war, Afghan children had come to believe that they were unlikely to survive beyond the age of 15.

Not a wound on him.

Seventy eight of the mutilated were minor boys and girls.

Some Kuwaiti children had lost their lives, while others had remained traumatized by the consequences of the military occupation.

Each year, more and more staff members are traumatized.

He drew the attention of the Executive Board to the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and the terrible physical damage and psychological trauma suffered by women and girls.

These wounds may be aggravated by physical injuries in cases of outright physical attacks.

With the support of the international community, Mozambique was creating the minimum conditions for the most vulnerable population, children.

The psychological effects of the crisis were an insidious and serious health concern, particularly in children some sources had found that 90 per cent of the children exhibited traumatic stress related symptoms.

(e) Impact, consequences, including negative physical and psychological effects, and trauma of crimes against children

Rehabilitation work of a comprehensive nature educational, psychological (trauma counselling), vocational for children affected by war.

Creating Animation Films on Young Women and Girls' Rights

The scars of the war are evident on the traumatic conditions of some teenagers and young adults in Sierra Leone.

Over the past decade a million children have been killed, 6 million have been seriously wounded or handicapped for life, more than a million have been orphaned or separated from their families, and millions of others are suffering serious psychological damage.

Centre for Disabled Children

Civilian casualties of the Suhmur massacre Nine killed and two injured, all of them children, women or elderly persons

In 1995, 61 persons were sentenced for child abuse (0.1 per cent) involving scaring and threatening children.

More than 12,000 Palestinian children have been injured since October 2000.5

However, this is not acceptable when mutilation, sickness, traumatism and sometimes death of women and children result.