Stolen Futures: The hidden toll of child casualties in Syria

The conflict in Syria has had a large-scale lethal impact on the country’s children. In the absence of other sources of information, the extent and nature of this impact on children (and on Syrians generally) is known only thanks to the efforts of a handful of Syrian civil society groups that record the conflict’s casualties on a daily basis.

The paper's recommendation to all parties concerned with the victims of the Syrian conflict is that such information gathering efforts should be joined and supported, including by States. The chemical attacks in Ghouta are already under investigation by the international community; the many other ways in which civilians, including children, have been killed throughout this conflict warrants similarly serious investigation.