While many families prepare to celebrate the Children’s Daymillions of boys and girls in the world must face a very different reality: 1 in 6 lives in wars and conflict areas. Before that panorama, the ACNUR Foundation He launched the campaign “War is not a game” to raise awareness about the serious situation that is lived globally.
The report of ACNUR Global trends presented at the end of April 2025 revealed that There are more than 122 million people displaced in the world. And although boys and girls represent 29% of the global population, they constitute 40% of people displaced by force.
At the moment, More than 49 million boys and girls have been forced to flee From their homes to save their lives, a figure that exceeds the total population of Argentina. In the flight, children face unimaginable dangers. Many cross borders alone, being unprotected against those who take advantage of their vulnerability.
War is not a game, the ACNUR Foundation campaign
Faced with this scenario, the United Nations dependent organization promotes the initiative “War is not a game”through which he invites society to act for childhoods trapped in conflicts, wars and armed violence signing in Laguerranoesunjuego.org. The firms collected will be presented in September at the United Nations General Assembly, to urge world leaders to take urgent measures for a childhood that can play and live in peace.
“Childhood must be synonymous with play, not fear or flight. However, today 1 in 6 children in the world grows in wars and conflict areas. Children that should pass between classrooms and squares, pass between debris, sirens and fear. From the acnur Argentina Foundation we work to make this inadmissible reality. “War is not a game ‘is an urgent call to return what they should never have lost: the right to live and play in peace,” said Paula Martínez Álvarez, Director of Communications at the Acnur Argentina Foundation.
In 2024, violence against children in armed conflicts reached unprecedented levels, after registering an overwhelming increase of 25% in the number of serious violations with respect to 2023, according to the most recent UN report on children and armed conflicts published in June 2025. Such violations include murders, mutilations, forced recruitment, sexual abuse and denial of humanitarian aid.
“In the world, millions of boys and girls are recruited to fight as soldiers and trained to kill when they do not even know how Argentina, we lift the voice firmly: war is not a game! Children must be able to live and play in peace, ”said Osvaldo Laport, Ambassador of Goodwill of UNHCR, the UN Agency for refugees.
War is not a game
Different public figures have already joined this action by sharing powerful messages on their social networks, such is in the case of Osvaldo Laport -Ambassador of goodwill of ACNUR -, Georgina Barbarossa, Claudia Villafañe, Marcela Kloosterboer, Eleonora Wexler, Isabel Macedo, Flor Otero, Sergio Lapegüe, Noelia Marzol, Diego Ramos, Flavia Palmiero, Barbie Velez, Pía Shaw, Viviana Saccone, Nico Peralta, Sebastián Almada, among others.
In a world where violence is naturalized from an early age, signing for peace is a way of expressing that childhood at war is inadmissible. This month of childhood we can raise their voice for children who cannot do it, signing in Laguerranoesunjuego.org.
Source: Ambito
