UNITED
NATIONS
S
Security Council
Distr.
GENERAL
S/RES/1261 (1999)*
30 August 1999
RESOLUTION 1261 (1999)
Adopted by the Security Council at its 4037th meeting,
on 25 August 1999
The Security Council,
Recalling the statements of its President of 29 June 1998 (S/PRST/1998/18),
12 February 1999 (S/PRST/1999/6) and 8 July 1999 (S/PRST/1999/21),
Noting recent efforts to bring to an end the use of children as soldiers in
violation of international law, in International Labour Organization Convention
No. 182 on the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst
Forms of Child Labour which prohibits forced or compulsory labour, including the
forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict, and in
the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in which conscripting or
enlisting children under the age of fifteen into national armed forces or using
them to participate actively in hostilities is characterized as a war crime,
1.
Expresses its grave concern at the harmful and widespread impact of
armed conflict on children and the long-term consequences this has for durable
peace, security and development;
2.
Strongly condemns the targeting of children in situations of armed
conflict, including killing and maiming, sexual violence, abduction and forced
displacement, recruitment and use of children in armed conflict in violation of
international law, and attacks on objects protected under international law,
including places that usually have a significant presence of children such as
schools and hospitals, and calls on all parties concerned to put an end to such
practices;
3.
Calls upon all parties concerned to comply strictly with their
obligations under international law, in particular the Geneva Conventions of
12 August 1949 and the obligations applicable to them under the Additional
Protocols thereto of 1977 and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
*
Reissued for technical reasons.
99-24859 (E)
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