SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2013, para. 14

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Attacks on schools, hospitals, teachers, schoolchildren and medical personnel in situations of conflict remain widespread and alarming. Access to education and health care continues to be disrupted by the damage or destruction resulting from targeted attacks on schools and medical facilities and by the use of explosive weapons. Many schools and hospitals are looted by armed groups, used as barracks, operational centres and detention sites, including by governmental forces. Access to education is also hampered, as schools are targeted by armed groups as places for the indoctrination and recruitment of children. In some cases, extremist armed groups also interfere in school programmes. Teachers and medical personnel are often threatened or become victims of targeted killings and abductions. Girls' access to education is particularly affected by all forms of attack on schools.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
Document type
SRSG report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2013
Paragraph type
Other
Paragraph number
14