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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 82 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | The digital agenda should include the following key dimensions. |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 111 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | In order to maximize the involvement of children in discussions and action on violence, the Special Representative is engaging additional experts on child participation and will further develop the child-friendly space on her website. |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 83 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | The conference brought together an eminent group of government representatives, policymakers, experts and researchers committed to the protection of children's rights through evidence-based analysis, advocacy and public policies. |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 25 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | Yet, without good data, national planning is compromised, effective policymaking and resource mobilization are hampered, and targeted interventions are limited in their ability to prevent and combat violence against children. |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 123 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | The Conference brought together an eminent group of government representatives, policymakers, experts and researchers committed to the protection of children's rights through evidence-based analysis, advocacy and public policies. |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 48 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | Guided by the important deliberations of the XX Pan American Child Congress, significant steps were taken to consolidate regional partnerships with the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Ibero-American Community. |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 77 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | Securing sound support and predictable funding has been indispensable to promote progress in the present strategic agenda, and remains critical to ensure effective and independent performance of the Special Representative's mandate. |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 85 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | With this aim, and in the overall framework of the priorities of her mandate, in 2011 the Special Representative will place special emphasis on the areas described below. |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 109 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | Child participation continues to be a core dimension of the Special Representative's mandate. Regular meetings have been held with children and young people, including within the framework of regional initiatives and field missions. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 36 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | [Vulnerabilities and risks faced by children who are internally displaced during armed conflict – addressing their rights]: The rights of internally displaced children are expressly guaranteed and firmly entrenched in international humanitarian law and human rights law – the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict. These instruments obligate State and non-State actors alike to protect children from the harmful effects of armed conflict, to prevent arbitrary displacement, to protect and assist persons who are displaced, and to facilitate durable solutions to displacement, paying special attention to the particular vulnerabilities and risks faced by internally displaced children. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | [Vulnerabilities and risks faced by children who are internally displaced during armed conflict – addressing their rights]: The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement also pay specific attention to the situation of internally displaced children. Although not a binding document, the Principles are based on and reflect existing standards of international law, which are binding. The authoritative nature of the Principles is further reinforced by their broad international acceptance; they have been recognized by States as “an important international framework for the protection of internally displaced persons,” as well as a “tool” and “standard” to guide governments, international organizations and all other relevant actors in situations of internal displacement. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 39 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | [Vulnerabilities and risks faced by children who are internally displaced during armed conflict – addressing their rights]: The Guiding Principles assert that children, especially unaccompanied minors, as well as expectant mothers and mothers with young children, are “entitled to protection and assistance required by their condition and to treatment which takes into account their special needs” (Principle 4.2). The Principles also affirm the right of families to remain together and to be rapidly reunified (Principles 7 and 17); protection of children from sale into marriage, exploitation and forced labour (Principle 11); protection of children from recruitment or from taking part in hostilities (Principle 13); the right to documentation in their own names, including birth certificates (Principle 20); and the right to education, including the equal participation of girls (Principle 23). |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 40 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | [Vulnerabilities and risks faced by children who are internally displaced during armed conflict – addressing their rights]: States and all parties to conflict have obligations under international humanitarian and international human rights law to protect internally displaced children in all phases of displacement. The most fundamental of their rights is the right to life, dignity and physical, mental and moral integrity. Displacement almost inevitably entails severe threats to the right to life. Therefore, the physical safety of the affected population, particularly women and children, in zones of armed conflict should be the highest priority. Protected safe spaces for displaced children should be guaranteed - both for those seeking to escape imminent harm, as well as for those who have reached a place of safety such as an IDP camp but who continue to face security threats, or are at risk of further displacement. Children should also have access to the fullest extent and with the least possible delay to the humanitarian assistance they require, including food, potable water, shelter, health care and psychosocial services. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 42 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | [Vulnerabilities and risks faced by children who are internally displaced during armed conflict – addressing their rights]: In situations of internal displacement, the freedom of movement of the affected population, including their right to move freely in and out of camps and settlements should be respected. For children, it entails the right to move freely with their family. Few threats to a child’s well-being equal that of being separated from his or her family during conflict, and for these children all possible action should be taken to prevent separation from their families and to ensure rapid reunification in the case of separation. To this end, displaced children, in particular separated and unaccompanied minors, should have their own identity documentation in order to enjoy their full legal rights and to have access to basic social services, such as health care and education. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 43 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | [Vulnerabilities and risks faced by children who are internally displaced during armed conflict – addressing their rights]: Ultimately, displacement should be a temporary condition and a durable solution should be secured where all those who were internally displaced no longer have any specific protection and assistance needs linked to their displacement and can enjoy their human rights without discrimination. States have a responsibility to create the conditions for a durable solution to displacement, either through voluntary return, integration or resettlement. The best interests of a child – determined through participatory, age-appropriate and gender-competent assessments – should always be the primary consideration when seeking a durable solution. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 63 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | The Special Representative welcomes and appreciates the strengthened collaboration between her Office and the United Nations human rights system, and reiterates her continued support, including sharing regular information and advocating the protection of children affected by armed conflict. The Special Representative emphasizes that unless all parties to conflict adhere to their commitments, comply with their international obligations and are held accountable for non-compliance, the plight of children in situations of armed conflict risks deterioration. To this end, the Special Representative offers the following recommendations. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 64 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | State parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child are encouraged to strengthen national and international measures for the prevention of recruitment of children into the armed forces or armed groups and their use in hostilities. In particular, those measures include signing and ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and enacting legislation that explicitly prohibits and criminalizes the recruitment of children into armed forces or groups and their use in hostilities; exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction in order to strengthen the international protection of children against recruitment; taking measures to implement the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child; and submitting timely reports to the Committee under the Optional Protocol. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 67 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | The international community is urged to continue to mobilize its energies towards: advocating unequivocally for 18 as the minimum age for recruitment and participation in hostilities; exerting international pressure on parties that continue to recruit and use children; monitoring and compelling adherence by parties to conflict to commitments made to protect children, and holding them accountable for failure to comply with international standards; addressing the political, social and economic factors that facilitate the recruitment and use of children; and responding to the rehabilitation and reintegration needs of former child soldiers. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 73 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | Member States which bear a central and immediate political, legal and moral responsibility, should comply with international law for the protection of children within their territories. They should take strong and urgent action to bring to justice individuals responsible for the recruitment and use of children in the armed forces or armed groups, and their use in hostilities, in violation of applicable international law. They should also take action against other grave violations against children through national justice systems, including undertaking appropriate reforms of national legislation for the protection of children, in order to bring laws into line with international obligations, as well as strengthening child-protection capacity and training for the military, the police, and law enforcement and judiciary officials within national security sector reform efforts. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | The 1996 Graça Machel study on the impact of armed conflict on children (A/51/306 and Add.1) and the 2007 10-year review of that study (see A/62/228) noted that the changing nature of conflict put children at a higher risk than ever before. Children have become more vulnerable to new tactics of war, including the blurring of lines between military and civilian targets, constriction of humanitarian space and access to affected populations, deliberate targeting of traditional safe havens and critical infrastructures such as educational institutions and medical facilities, and the rise of terrorism as well as counter-terrorism measures. Studies have also shown that armed conflicts hamper the achievement of the eight Millennium Development Goals, six of which promote the rights and well-being of children. Conflicts create an environment in which grave violations are committed against children and, by interrupting or slowing development, children are denied opportunities for a better future. Therefore, the changing nature of conflict and the impact on children continues to be an overarching framework of analysis for the agenda on children and armed conflict. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | Protecting vulnerable populations, and especially children, should be paramount during military operations. New tactics of war, the absence of clear battlefields and increasingly numerous and diverse parties to conflict in terms of their composition, motivations and character have complicated matters. Moreover, the rise of terrorism where civilians are the main victims directly challenges the distinction between military and civilian targets, one of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law. Counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency also blur the line between what is legitimate and what is not in addressing security threats. Raids against predominately civilian targets, including night raids, and the use of aerial bombardment in civilian-populated areas, make children more vulnerable to being killed or maimed and often serve to fuel resentment and conflict. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | Rules of engagement of armed forces stipulate that the protection of civilians should remain the foremost consideration in the course of military operations. Increasingly, however, the record indicates that these strictures are inadequate to ensure the safety of children. Moreover, as noted by the Secretary-General in his most recent report on children and armed conflict (A/64/742-S/2010/181), there also seems to be a growing practice of putting children in the direct line of danger, through, for instance, their use for intelligence-gathering in military operations. This includes the interrogation of children separated from armed groups during military actions, in contravention of standards that require the immediate transfer of such children to protection actors. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 6a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | [In this regard, the development of standard operating procedures by armed forces is critical in order to put in place additional protection measures for children during military operations. Regional and United Nations peacekeeping missions should also prioritize such measures and procedures in the context of peacekeeping engagements or where international forces are supporting national forces in joint operations. These standard operating procedures may vary from one context to another, but a minimum set of measures should include:] Joint military-civilian assessment of the security risk for populations, and especially children, prior to any military action; |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 6b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | [In this regard, the development of standard operating procedures by armed forces is critical in order to put in place additional protection measures for children during military operations. Regional and United Nations peacekeeping missions should also prioritize such measures and procedures in the context of peacekeeping engagements or where international forces are supporting national forces in joint operations. These standard operating procedures may vary from one context to another, but a minimum set of measures should include:] Refraining from engaging in combat and/or using heavy artillery in highly populated areas; |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 6d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | [In this regard, the development of standard operating procedures by armed forces is critical in order to put in place additional protection measures for children during military operations. Regional and United Nations peacekeeping missions should also prioritize such measures and procedures in the context of peacekeeping engagements or where international forces are supporting national forces in joint operations. These standard operating procedures may vary from one context to another, but a minimum set of measures should include:] Refraining from occupying or using schools and health facilities, or their vicinity, for purposes that could turn them into military targets; |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 6e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | [In this regard, the development of standard operating procedures by armed forces is critical in order to put in place additional protection measures for children during military operations. Regional and United Nations peacekeeping missions should also prioritize such measures and procedures in the context of peacekeeping engagements or where international forces are supporting national forces in joint operations. These standard operating procedures may vary from one context to another, but a minimum set of measures should include:] Undertaking post-operation evaluations of the impact on civilians, including children; |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 6f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | [In this regard, the development of standard operating procedures by armed forces is critical in order to put in place additional protection measures for children during military operations. Regional and United Nations peacekeeping missions should also prioritize such measures and procedures in the context of peacekeeping engagements or where international forces are supporting national forces in joint operations. These standard operating procedures may vary from one context to another, but a minimum set of measures should include:] Developing procedures for the reception, treatment and rapid handover to United Nations child protection actors of children separated from armed groups in the course of military operations. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | Member States seem increasingly resolved to better protect vulnerable populations, including through more explicit civilian protection provisions in peacekeeping mandates. In United Nations peacekeeping, this has led to the development of new operational arrangements such as the Joint Protection Teams and Rapid Response and Early Warning Cell of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). The objective of these initiatives is to deepen information as the basis for more effective action; to better coordinate action across civilian, police and military components of peacekeeping operations; and to leverage peacekeeping resources more effectively, in particular the advantage of their physical presence in remote areas where the access of humanitarian actors may be limited. The evolution of the "conditionality policy" in MONUSCO (ensuring that support to national forces will be provided only if they comply with the condition that they protect civilians) is another healthy practice in the development of peacekeeping norms. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | The motivations for attacking teachers, students and school buildings are numerous and cynical, including to achieve military, political or sociocultural objectives. In some cases, attacks are perpetrated as a means of creating a general climate of insecurity, to destabilize local communities or target them for retribution for perceived support of the Government, or to undermine the Government by destroying symbols of State institutions. The result is a growing disregard for the sanctity of schools, the notion that schools, above all other places, are safe havens for children. The consequence is a growing fear among children to attend school, among teachers to give classes, and among parents to send their children to school. |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | Non-negotiated soft law | SRSG report | Sexual violence is often used to achieve military, political and social objectives through, for instance, the targeting of specific ethnicities or terrorizing populations to force displacement. Data indicate that children are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence in and around refugee and internally displaced population settings, and when they are directly associated with armed forces and groups. Child survivors of sexual violence suffer both physical and psychological consequences, which are often debilitating. This is particularly true for girls who have been raped or forced to "marry" combatants, as well as for their children born of rape. |
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