SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 49
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- [Empowering children through education, skills and livelihood opportunities]: Ensuring children’s access to education is itself a powerful means of reducing the risk of joining armed forces or groups in conflict-affected countries or fragile situations. Research has suggested that, in some contexts, the higher the level of education received, the less likely a child is to mobilize voluntarily. If children attend school, they are less likely to join armed forces or groups because they have other alternatives. In contrast, a lack of access to education leads many young people to see military training as their only opportunity to provide for themselves and their families. In situations of armed conflict, when the protective function of schools is most required, schools often become targets for attacks. The use of schools for military purposes equally reduces the likelihood of children attending school. All stakeholders must therefore ensure that schools are protected. Measures that field-based practitioners in conflict settings have used to prevent schools from being attacked include physical protection, community involvement in protection of schools, alternative delivery of education, negotiations with stakeholders to make schools zones of peace, restrictions on the military and political use of schools, and advocacy initiatives.
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Youth
- Année
- 2012
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 49
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