A/70/162 C. Building support on partnerships with United Nations mechanisms 56. In November 2014, the Special Representative addressed the General Assembly and other child protection stakeholders during the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Furthermore, the Special Representative, jointly with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, worked to support the adoption by the Assembly of its resolution 69/293, in which it established 19 June as the International Day for the Eli mination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. 57. During the reporting period three open debates of the Security Council on children and armed conflict took place, which resulted in the adopted of Council resolution 2225 (2015) and a non-paper issued by France on proposals for action to protect children from non-State armed groups (A/69/9180S/2015/372, annex). The Special Representative also briefed the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict on specific country situations to ensure that members of the Council were kept abreast of latest developments pertaining to her mandate. During the 12-month period, country reports of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict were issued for Afghanistan (S/2015/336) and South Sudan (S/2014/884). 58. The Special Representative led the preparation of the annual report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict (A/69/926-S/2015/409). During the reporting period, two reports were discussed in open debates of the Security Council, one in September 2014 covering the year 2013, and one in June 2015, cove ring the year 2014. The information in the latest report demonstrated a significant increase in incidents of abduction in 2014, with approximately 2,500 incidents perpetrated mostly by non-State armed groups, a significant increase from the approximately 550 abductions documented in the 2013 annual report (A/68/878-S/2014/339). The Special Representative worked with Member States, non-governmental organizations and members of the Council to highlight concerns about the increasing occurrence of abductions. That resulted in the unanimous adoption by the Council of its resolution 2225 (2015), co-sponsored by Malaysia and 55 other Member States, in which it expressed grave concern over the abduction of children in situations of armed conflict. The Council requested the Secretary-General to include in the annexes to his future reports on children and armed conflict those parties to armed conflict that engaged, in contravention of applicable international law, in patterns of abduction of children in situations of armed conflict. 59. The Special Representative also advocated for the inclusion of grave violations against children as designation criteria for sanctions, and engaged with Security Council sanctions committees in a number of country situations. She briefed the committees concerning the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in September 2014 and South Sudan in May 2015, providing information on grave violations committed against children in those situa tions. 60. The Special Representative was in regular communication with the Human Rights Council and various human rights mechanisms as key forums to help to raise awareness on and address violations of the rights of children in situations of conflict. In September 2014, at the invitation of the President of the Human Rights Council, the Special Representative briefed the Council on the situation of children 15-12221 15/17