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Between the Guns

Author: Varindra Tarzie Vittachi
Price: £5.99
No. of pages: 144
Publication date: 1993
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Languages: English
ISBN: 0-340-60231-7

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Children are above and beyond politics -- and should be made a conflict-free zone in times of war. In this detailed study, Vittachi, former deputy director of UNICEF, gives an account of UNICEF's efforts to build a world safe for children. Beginning in El Salvador -- and then in Uganda, Mozambique, Somalia, The Sudan, Ethiopia and Liberia -- UNICEF implored governments and rebel forces to agree to days and zones of tranquility of children. UNICEF was able to enter war zones and immunise against the six vaccinable diseases that were claiming the lives of millions of children each year.

Between the Guns is an incredible story of courage and determination; the story of UNICEF's own war with militarism for the sake of the world's children.

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