SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2011, para. 35
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- [Attacks on schools and hospitals: an emerging concern]: Armed conflict can either directly or indirectly result in the forced closure or the compromised functioning of civilian facilities. Children, teachers and health-care providers can be subject to direct threats and acts of intimidation by parties, which, for example, target Government institutions or medical personnel assisting the other party to the conflict. In other situations, armed elements are opposed to secular and/or girls’ education, or to girls being seen by male medical personnel. The delivery of health-care services to children is also heavily affected by lack of supplies and manpower caused by looting of the facilities and/or access constraints. A general climate of fear and insecurity as a result of armed hostilities can also prevent children, teachers and medical personnel from attending school or seeking medical help. Parents, for example, may find it too risky to send their children to school in a volatile security situation, or children may be denied timely access to hospitals because of checkpoints and roadblocks.
- 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
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 35
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