SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2013, para. 95
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The Special Representative urges Member States that have not done so to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and to enact effective national legislation and policies to criminalize the recruitment and use of children by armed forces. She calls upon the international community to support those efforts, including by providing the necessary technical and financial support to concerned Member States to end the recruitment and use of children in armed forces.
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict