阿勒颇的儿童需要立即保护

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【中文标题】阿勒颇的儿童需要立即保护

【原文标题】Aleppo's children need protection -- now

【原文作者】Anthony Lake

【原文链接】

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/17/opinion/lake-syria-children-refugees/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

【更新时间】November 18, 2014 -- Updated 2141 GMT (0541 HKT)

【原文来源】cnn.com

【正文】

Editor's note: Anthony Lake is executivedirector of UNICEF. He was National Security Advisor under President BillClinton and Director of Policy Planning in President Carter's administration.The views expressed are his own.

编者的话：Anthony Lake是联合国儿童基金会的常务董事。他是比尔克林顿总统的国家安全顾问，在卡特总统的管理部门任政策规划主任。以下的话都是他自己的观点。

(CNN) -- Children living in the Syrian cityof Aleppo watch the sky. Not for signs of winter's approach, although thecold winds are already blowing, but for the barrel bombs, mortars and shellfirethey know will not distinguish between military targets and their families'homes.

（CNN）—住在叙利亚城市阿勒颇的孩子们看着天空。寒冷的风已经在吹着，孩子们不是因为有了冬天的迹象而仰望天空，而是因为他们所知道的炸弹，迫击炮和炮火不会区分军事目标和他们的房子，随时都有可能被击中。

It is hard to be a child -- or to have achildhood -- in Aleppo.

在阿勒颇做一个孩子，或者说拥有一个童年，是非常困难的。

The litany of deprivation and endangermentis long. Indiscriminate attacks have reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble.Across the city, more than a half-million displaced people are living inappalling conditions, struggling every day to find safe drinking water, enoughfood to feed their children, fuel, or even a warm place to sleep. Mosthospitals are closed and most doctors and health professionals have been eitherkilled, forced to flee, or unable to go to work. Interruptions in immunizationprograms have left tens of thousands of children more vulnerable to disease.

剥削和危害是非常漫长的。不分青红皂白的攻击迫使整个社区被夷为平地。整个城市，超过50万的人流离失所，生活在恶劣的条件下，每天都努力地寻找安全的饮用水，足够养活他们孩子的食物，燃料，甚至一个暖和的地方睡觉。大多数医院都关门了，大多数医生和健康专家已经死亡，被迫逃离或者是不能去上班。免疫规划的中断使得成千上万的孩子更容易受到疾病。

The threat of attacks hasdriven some children underground into makeshift classrooms -- while others arelearning in converted shops, mosques or empty buildings -- when they're luckyenough to go to school at all.

袭击的威胁使一些孩子从地下的教室转移到临时教室—而另一些孩子则在改装过后的商店、清真寺或空建筑里学习——当他们足够幸运的去上学的时候。

This has been the situation in Aleppo formore than two years. And while some parts of the city remain relatively calm,escalating violence in recent months has signaled ominously of worse days tocome.

这是阿勒颇两年多来的情况。尽管该城市的一些地区相对平静，但近几个月来不断升级的暴力已经不妙地暗示着苦难日子将要来临。

Despite all this, Aleppo is not a placewithout hope -- and there has been progress. Working with communities and localauthorities, humanitarian staff are reaching some children and families in needacross the city. In recent months, United Nations convoys, including those ledby UNICEF, have been able to cross conflict lines, bringing with them criticalsupplies to help children suffering from a lack of nutrition and to increasethe availability of safe water and improved sanitation.

尽管如此，阿勒颇还是一个有希望的地方——这里已经取得了一定的进展。人道主义工作者与社区和当地政府合作，已经接触到了整个城市困难的孩子和家庭。近几个月来，联合国车队，包括由联合国儿童基金会带领的有护卫作用车队，穿过冲突分界线，带来重要物资来帮助营养不良的孩子以及提高安全用水的可用性和改善卫生条件。

In all the hardest-hit areas of Syria -- inAleppo, in Homs and in Deir Ezzor -- we are doing all we can to reach thehardest to reach children and families with therapeutic foods, waterpurification supplies, warm clothing, school supplies and textbooks, and othercritical assistance as winter descends.

阿勒颇，霍姆斯和代尔祖尔是叙利亚受灾最严重的地区。随着冬天的来临，我们正在做我们所有能做的来帮助孩子们和各个家庭获得医疗食物，水净化用品，保暖的衣服，学习用具和课本，还有其他重要的援助。

Of course, we are acutelyaware that this assistance is not enough. Not even close to enough, when thereare up to 2 million people in the troubled city of Aleppo alone -- including250,000 children and families in eastern Aleppo who are cut off from regularhumanitarian assistance. When hundreds of thousands of children cannot bereached in rural Damascus due to fighting and siege. When the nation's youngestchildren have known nothing but war and adolescents are coming of age in aculture of conflict.

当然，我们清楚地认识到这种援助是不够的。当包括被困在阿勒颇东部的远离常规的人道主义援助的25万名儿童和家人等多达两百万人独自地被困在阿勒颇时，当成千上万的孩子由于战斗和围攻无法到达大马士革农村时，当国家最年轻一代的孩子只知道战争和青少年所处的时代是一个文化冲突时，这些援助是远远不够的。

The reality is that an entire generation ofSyrian children is at risk, not only from violence itself, but also for want ofeducation, protection and emotional support to help them overcome the traumathey have been suffering for nearly four brutal years. Without these criticalnecessities, how will they have the ability and the desire to rebuild theircountry someday?

叙利亚的现状是整整一代的孩子都处于危险之中，不仅仅是从暴力本身，还有从对获得教育，保护以及情感支持，从而来帮助他们克服在残酷的四年里他们所遭受的创伤的渴望。没有了这些必需品，他们如何能够以及渴望在未来的某一天重建他们的国家呢？

We must reach them, not only for the good our support can providetoday, but for the hope for tomorrow it can help keep alive.For children who have been robbed of nearly everything, it is a reminder thatthey have not been forgotten. That their futures matter.

我们必须接触他们，不仅仅是因为我们今天能够提供的物质支持，更是为了能够在明天让他们有继续活着的希望。对于几乎被抢得一无所有的孩子们来说，这些支持提醒着他们并没有被遗忘，提醒着他们的未来很重要。

In the end, the only solutions for Aleppo,and for Syria and for the region -- are political solutions. But in themeantime, the children of Aleppo need protection now. And we needunconditional, unrestricted humanitarian access from all sides now. Beforeanother bomb or shell drops.

最后，对于叙利亚以及整个地区来说，阿勒颇唯一的解决方案就是使用政治。但与此同时，阿勒颇的孩子们需要立刻保护。在另一波炸弹以及炮火降落之前，我们需要来自四面八方的无条件、无限制的人道主义的慰问。（A）