SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 41
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- [Vulnerabilities and risks faced by children who are internally displaced during armed conflict – addressing their rights]: The recruitment of children by the armed forces or armed groups and internal displacement are closely linked. Evidence suggests that refugee and IDP camps are often prime recruiting grounds for child soldiers, owing to the convenient concentration of vulnerable children. The lack of security around some camps increases the likelihood of child recruitment. Internally displaced children are also at increased risk of suffering from rape and other forms of sexual violence in the camps, or during flight, as they are preyed upon by soldiers, armed groups, traffickers, border guards and other opportunists. Governments are obligated to not only criminalize such acts but to hold those who perpetrate these violations accountable. Safe locations for camps and settlements in order to prevent incursions of armed groups and protect internally displaced children from sexual violence should be prioritized. And finally, measures to alleviate the social and economic factors that cause displacement in the first place, and that subsequently render children more vulnerable to recruitment, such as trafficking, forced labour and sexual and gender-based violence, should be given serious consideration.
- 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
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2010
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 41
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