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Rise in Caribbean children displaced by storms shows climate crisis is a child rights issue: UNICEF © UNICEF/UN0119399/ A seven-year old boy stands in front of debris as Hurricane Irma moves off from the northern coast of the Dominican Republic.         6 December 2019 Climate Change The number of Caribbean children displaced by storms has risen approximately six-fold in the past five years, the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) reveals in a new  report  released on Friday.  Catastrophic tropical cyclones and hurricanes uprooted an estimated 761,000 children in the region between 2014 and 2018, which also was the hottest five-year period on record.  UNICEF ✔ @UNICEF John was separated from his home, friends and toys after Hurricane Dorian devastated parts of the Bahamas. UNICEF is helping children deal with increasingly extreme weather across the Caribbean. # COP25 # ClimateAction 252 4:30