A/HRC/37/47
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-seventh session
26 February–23 March 2018
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Annual report of the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of
the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict,
Virginia Gamba. In the report, which covers the period from December 2016 to December
2017, the Special Representative outlines the activities undertaken in discharging her
mandate and the progress achieved in addressing grave violations against children. The
Special Representative also explores the challenges in strengthening the protection of
children affected by armed conflict, including by addressing the impact of trafficking and
the sale of children in situations of armed conflict, the emerging and recurrent challenges
related to the denial of humanitarian access to children and progress in ending grave
violations against children, in particular through direct engagement with parties to conflict.
Lastly, the Special Representative sets out recommendations addressed to the Human
Rights Council and Member States to further the protection of children’s rights.
GE.18-00249(E)