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the NATO focus on child protection concerns during the upcoming summit to be
held in Wales in September 2014.
VI. Recommendations
77. The Special Representative calls upon the Member States that are the focus of
the Children, Not Soldiers campaign to redouble their efforts and intensify their
collaboration with the United Nations and other child protection actors towards
compliance with their commitments. In that regard, she calls upon donors to provide
adequate and sustained funding for the implementation of action plans.
78. The Special Representative calls upon Member States and regional
organizations to continue to facilitate United Nations access to and dialogue with
non-State armed groups with a view to ending and preventing grave violations of
children’s rights, including through mainstreaming child protection concerns in
ceasefire and peace negotiations and within implementation mechanisms.
79. The Special Representative calls upon Member States to seek alternatives to
the prosecution and detention of children for their alleged association with armed
groups or under counter-terrorism mechanisms or to ensure, at a minimum, that
trials and procedures are consistent with international juvenile justice standards.
80. Noting the importance of early consideration and long-term planning to the
process of reintegrating and rehabilitating children affected by armed conflict,
which lies at the heart of the security-development nexus, the Special
Representative calls for the inclusion of the issue in the peacebuilding, recovery and
development agenda of international agencies and bilateral donors and its adequate
reflection in the formulation of sustainable development goals.
81. 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 and
groups.
82. The Special Representative calls upon Member States, regional organizations
and parties to conflict to make every effort to protect schools and hospitals and to
adopt concrete measures to deter the military use of schools.
83. The Special Representative calls upon Member States and civil society to
ensure that particular attention is paid to the plight of girls and boys and to promote
specific provisions for children in global efforts to end, prevent and respond to
sexual violence in conflict.
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