Content_paragraphs:  The United Nations country task force on monitoring and reporting on children
  
  and armed conflict verified 23 grave violations committed against 23 children
  
  (19 boys and 4 girls),including 11 boys affected by recruitment and use in
  
  11 violations, 10 child casualties (9 boys and 1 girl) caused by killing (2 children:
  
  1 boy and 1 girl) and maiming (8 children: 7 boys and 1 girl) in 10 violations, and
  
  2 girls as survivors of rape. The children affected were in the greater Equatoria
  
  (18 children: 16 boys and 2 girls), and greater Bahr el-Ghazal regions (3 boys) and
  
  greater Upper Nile (2 children: 1 boy and 1 girl).