Blockades At Nepal’s Border With India Harming Children, ‘Threatens’ Country’s Future, UNICEF Director Says
The Guardian: Nepal border blockade ‘threatens the future of the country itself,’ says U.N.
“UNICEF has cautioned that the blockade of Nepal’s border posts with India ‘threatens the future of the country itself.’ … ‘First, there was a devastating act of nature — the earthquakes that took and damaged so many lives,’ said Anthony Lake, the executive director of UNICEF, during a recent visit to the country. ‘Now, political differences among human beings are dealing new blows to the children of Nepal’…” (Pattisson, 11/18).
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