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(b) in recurrent attacks or threats of attacks against protected persons in
relation to schools and/or hospitals in situations of armed conflict, bearing in mind
all other violations and abuses committed against children, and notes that the
present paragraph will apply to situations in accordance with the conditions set out
in paragraph 16 of its resolution 1379 (2001);
Urges parties to armed conflict to refrain from actions that impede
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children’s access to education and to health services and requests the SecretaryGeneral to continue to monitor and report, inter alia, on the military use of schools
and hospitals in contravention of international humanitarian law, as well as on
attacks against, and/or kidnapping of teachers and medical personnel;
Invites the Secretary General, through the Special Representative of the
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Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, to exchange appropriate
information and maintain interaction from the earliest opportunity with the
governments concerned regarding violations and abuses committed against children
by parties which may be included in the annexes to his periodic report;
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While noting that some parties to armed conflict have responded to its
call upon them to prepare and implement concrete time-bound action plans to halt
recruitment and use of children in violation of applicable international law;
(a) Reiterates its call on parties to armed conflict listed in the annexes of the
Secretary-General’s report on children and armed conflict that have not already
done so to prepare and implement, without further delay, action plans to halt
recruitment and use of children and killing and maiming of children, in violation of
applicable international law, as well as rape and other sexual violence against
children;
(b) Calls upon those parties that have existing action plans and have since
been listed for multiple violations to prepare and implement separate action plans,
as appropriate, to halt the killing and maiming of children, recurrent attacks on
schools and/or hospitals, recurrent attacks or threats of attacks against protected
persons in relation to schools and/or hospitals, in violation of applicable
international law, as well as rape and other sexual violence against children;
(c) Calls upon those parties listed in the annexes of the Secretary-General’s
report on children and armed conflict that commit, in contravention of applicable
international law, recurrent attacks on schools and/or hospitals, recurrent attacks or
threats of attacks against protected persons in relation to schools and/or hospitals, in
situations of armed conflict, to prepare without delay, concrete time-bound action
plans to halt those violations and abuses;
(d) Further calls upon all parties listed in the annexes of the SecretaryGeneral’s report on children and armed conflict, to address all other violations and
abuses committed against children and undertake specific commitments and
measures in this regard;
(e) Urges those parties listed in the annexes of the Secretary-General’s report
on children and armed conflict to implement the provisions contained in this
paragraph in close cooperation with the Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral for Children and Armed Conflict and the United Nations country-level task
forces on monitoring and reporting;
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