India, Feb. 10 -- Once a UN Peacekeeping Commander observed that 'it has probably become more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in an armed conflict'. The current situation in Gaza amply proves it, as the death toll rises above 25,000, and more than 17, 000 women and children lost their lives (January 24). Almost two mothers die every hour. It is indeed a place where 'womanhood is denied', rued a Palestine-based civil society organisation (MIFTAH). The UNICEF, called it the 'most dangerous place to be a child', when over 1.1 million children are threatened by conflict, malnutrition, and diseases.
While, the prolonged war in Ukraine since 2022, has raised the number of refugees to 5.6 million, and internal displacement (IDP) to about 7...