A/HRC/15/58 IV. A major step forward: Security Council resolution 1882 (2009) – moving towards targeted measures 25. On 4 August 2009, the Security Council adopted resolution 1882 on children and armed conflict. Resolution 1882 was a major step forward in ensuring the protection of children affected by armed conflict by expanding the triggers for the listing of parties on the annexes of the Secretary-General’s report, to include those who kill and maim children as well as commit rape and other forms of sexual violence against children. The resolution also calls for parties to conflict to engage with the United Nations to develop time-bound action plans to cease, desist and prevent the perpetration of these violations. The resolution was seminal in other ways too: in particular, the Security Council reaffirmed its intention to take action against persistent perpetrators, including by enhancing communications between the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and the sanctions committees. 26. The statement made by the President of the Security Council in June 2010 (S/PRST/2010/10) advanced the intentions of the Council further in expressing its readiness to adopt targeted and graduated measures against the most recalcitrant and persistent of violators of children’s rights. This demonstrates the commitment by the Security Council to fully and firmly embrace the responsibility to protect children. 27. To this end, the Special Representative would like to bring to the attention of the Human Rights Council the parties which were included in the annexes to the latest report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict (S/2010/181, annexes I and II) for the recruitment and use of children, killing and maiming of children and rape and sexual violence against children, in contravention of applicable international law. The SecretaryGeneral’s report also spotlights sixteen persistent violators, who have been explicitly named and listed by the Secretary-General for five years or more. These parties are: • Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) • Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) • Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC), including fasttrack integrated units of the Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP), formerly led by Laurent Nkunda and Bosco Ntaganda • Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) • Front nationaliste et intégrationnaliste (FNI) • Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) • Karenni Army (KA) • Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) • Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) • Mai-Mai groups in North and South Kivu, including Patriotes résistants congolais (PARECO) • Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) • New People’s Army (NPA) • Pro-Government militias in Darfur • Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) • Tatmadaw Kyi 8