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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2015, para. 18
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- The General Assembly has recognized that attacks on education and health-care facilities deprive millions of children of their rights to healthy lives and to learn and realize their potential. This not only has an immediate impact on children, but also affects the future prospects of societies. In line with its recent debates and resolutions on education in emergencies and attacks on medical facilities, the Assembly welcomed the issuance of the guidance note entitled "Protect schools and hospitals: end attacks on education and health care" in May 2014, which was co-produced by the Special Representative and other organizations of the United Nations system. In her own efforts to promote the guidance note, the Special Representative attended a workshop on the protection of schools and hospitals in January 2015 in Berlin at the invitation of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Prevention of the violation of the rights to education and health was also supported by the Security Council through its resolutions 1998 (2011), 2143 (2014) and 2225 (2015), in which the Council urged all parties to conflict to respect the civilian character of schools and to refrain from actions that impeded children's access to education and health care.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 81
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- The relevant courts should include reparations to children affected by conflict in their judgements and sentencing hearings, providing victims with assistance in the form of physical rehabilitation, education, livelihood skills and psychosocial support.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 9
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- Detention of children should be in line with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice, which include specific protection with regard to the age of the child, access granted to child protection partners, appropriate legal counsel and provision of psychosocial support and activities. The treatment of children must be based on the objective of their future reintegration into society.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2015, para. 73
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- The indoctrination of children by extremist groups poses new challenges with regard to their protection and psychosocial rehabilitation and reintegration. The Special Representative encourages the Human Rights Council to make use of its mechanisms to highlight and address the need for appropriate measures to rehabilitate those children, in compliance with the principle of the best interest of the child and respecting the child's primary status as a victim.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2011, para. 31
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- The Convention on the Rights of the Child requires that States seek alternatives to judicial proceedings for children at the national level and that any solution needs to take into account “the child’s assuming of a constructive role in society.” For children, understanding and acknowledging a past wrongdoing plays a crucial role in their psychosocial development and reintegration process. Accountability based on restorative approaches contributes to a child’s rehabilitation and reconciliation with his or her community.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 26
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- In this regard, one of the most disturbing trends documented in 2016, noted earlier in the present report, is the increasing incidence of attacks on health facilities, which has had a grave impact on children's right to health. Hospitals, ambulances and medical personnel have been attacked or threatened with attack in many countries that are on the children and armed conflict agenda, including Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Iraq, Libya, Mali, South Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen. The Special Representative has engaged strongly on this issue with parties to conflict and has taken part in a number of United Nations system-wide initiatives. For example, the Office of the Special Representative has supported the development of recommendations on measures to enhance protection of the wounded and sick and of medical personnel and humanitarian personnel exclusively engaged in medical duties, and of their means of transport and equipment and of hospitals and other medical facilities, including through recommendations to parties to conflict, in line with the request made by the Security Council in its resolution 2286 (2016).
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 7
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- In Afghanistan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen, the right of children to health has been severely compromised by attacks on hospitals and health-care professionals. A number of highly publicized attacks have taken place in 2016, which are indicative of trends that have seen increasing numbers of attacks and threats of attacks on health care in recent years. The right of girls to education has also continued to suffer, with attacks or threats of attacks on schools, teachers and female pupils in situations such as in Iraq, Nigeria and the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as in Afghanistan and Mali.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 4
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- The Central African Republic was also a particular concern in 2016, and in the latter part of the reporting period the situation deteriorated significantly. Clashes between ex-Séléka factions in November in the east of the country resulted in many civilians, including children, being killed or wounded, and in over 11,000 persons reportedly being displaced. These clashes have added to the tension and violent outbreaks that have been ongoing throughout the reporting period. The prevailing insecurity led to the suspension of humanitarian activities in certain areas of the country, gravely compromising the right of children to health and well-being.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 3
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- Despite the advances that have been achieved in those two decades, the basic rights of children were regularly violated during the reporting period. In the Middle East, in addition to the direct impact of current conflicts on children, with thousands being killed, maimed, and recruited and used, there were rapidly developing and evolving humanitarian crises that were of serious concern at the time of writing, in December 2016. In Iraq, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimated that over half a million children and their families were trapped in Mosul with food and medicine running out and clean water in short supply. In a similar vein, in the Syrian Arab Republic, it was estimated that, at the end of the reporting period, nearly 500,000 children were living in besieged areas and were completely cut off from sustained humanitarian aid. In Yemen, intense conflict has resulted in a lack of food and water, which has put one and a half million children at risk of acute malnutrition.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2016, para. 16
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- One focus of the high-level meeting should be to highlight the responsibility of all States to ensure appropriate protection for all displaced children, to avoid aggravating their vulnerability, through equal access to health care, education and psychosocial support. The Special Representative communicated those messages to Member States at an informal meeting of the General Assembly, held in November 2015, to consider ways to advance a comprehensive response to the global humanitarian and refugee crisis. In December 2015, she attended the annual Dialogue on Protection Challenges organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, and advocated for children displaced by armed conflict.
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2016, para. 12
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- The protection of health care is also a key element of Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (General Assembly resolution 70/1). Initiatives to implement the Goals must include specific provisions for children affected by armed conflict. In that regard, the Special Representative welcomes the launch of the Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action at the World Humanitarian Summit. The initiative will help to ensure that the many children who are permanently disabled during conflict, sometimes purely as a result of the lack of basic medical services to treat minor conditions, are not forgotten.
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2016, para. 11
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- The international community has an important role to play in promoting accountability, protection and prevention. In resolution 69/132 on global health and foreign policy, the General Assembly urged Member States to protect, promote and respect the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, in accordance with obligations under relevant provisions of international human rights law. Similarly, the Security Council, in resolution 2286 (2016), demanded that all parties to armed conflict comply fully with their obligations under international law. The provisions set out in resolution 2286 (2016) complement those contained in Assembly resolutions relating to the children and armed conflict mandate to monitor and report on attacks on hospitals and schools.
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2016, para. 6
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- Almost half of all medical facilities in the Syrian Arab Republic are closed or only partially functioning. In Aleppo, there have been a number of air strikes on hospitals in the last six months, and children living there are confronted with the almost impossible task of obtaining basic health care in order to survive. In May, a Syrian doctor wrote in response to one attack that what was most heart-breaking was the need for doctors to choose which patients to save because there were not enough doctors to treat everyone; their hospitals, though they were the targets of bombs, still overflowed with the sick and injured. In Afghanistan, the attack on the Médecins sans frontières hospital in Kunduz in October 2015 caused deaths and injuries of 49 medical staff. The hospital was the only fully functioning trauma care facility for the north-eastern region of Afghanistan and had provided lifesaving procedures to 5,000 people in the period running up to the attack. In Yemen, to give one example, in Taiz, three health facilities were repeatedly hit in 23 separate incidents throughout 2015.
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2014, para. 79
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- [Children’s access to health care in times of armed conflict]: These incidents are of grave concern, and constitute a complete disregard for the special status of medical facilities, persons and functions, and a failure to protect the civilian population, including children. Concerted action by the international community is needed in order to highlight and tackle this issue, by strengthening the engagement of Member States, the United Nations, humanitarian and human rights organizations, civil society partners, the global health community, and above all, the parties to conflict. Medical professionals in neighbouring countries also need support, in order to respond to the urgent medical needs of persons fleeing conflict, the majority of whom are women and children.
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2014, para. 78
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- [Children’s access to health care in times of armed conflict]: Unfortunately, this principle stands in sharp contrast to reality. The civil war in the Syrian Arab Republic is a tragic example that demonstrates how the strongest principles of humanity can be trampled on by warfare. A recent report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic dealing with the issue of medical care has illustrated how the deliberate targeting of hospitals, medical personnel and transport, the denial of access to medical care, and ill-treatment of the sick and wounded have become some of the most alarming features of the Syrian conflict. Violence against health care workers has a significant compound effect, which causes dramatic increases in the mortality rate of patients. The breakdown of medical services disproportionately affects the most vulnerable segment of the population, especially children, nursing mothers and the disabled.
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2014, para. 77
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- [Children’s access to health care in times of armed conflict]: Hospitals that remain operational during conflict are often looted or forced to close down for one or another reason. They run out of medical supplies. Military personnel stay close by, or set up check points near hospitals. Medical personnel are sometimes threatened and forced to withdraw medical care from patients. In some cases, health services are diverted to satisfy military needs. Attacks on hospitals, health workers and patients strike at the heart of protection of children affected by armed conflict. Health services save and sustain lives. Health services are crucial in order to meet the needs of children in conflict situations. Hospitals should have no part in warfare.
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2014, para. 76
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- [Children’s access to health care in times of armed conflict]: Realities on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen indicate that patients, medical facilities, workers and ambulances are increasingly being targets of attack. This is a direct violation of the rules and customs enshrined in international humanitarian law, and is happening in many conflicts around the world. Both the recent initiative by the International Committee of the Red Cross, entitled Health Care in Danger, and the recent report by the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (A/68/297), have emphasized that the provision of medical care has come to the centre stage of armed conflict, and is increasingly under attack.
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2014, para. 75
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- [Children’s access to health care in times of armed conflict]: Armed conflict is a major public health hazard, and this is often overlooked. Tens of thousands of children die every year as a direct result of fighting. Furthermore, children die from malnutrition and disease caused or accentuated by armed conflicts. In many instances, conflict kills and injures more children than soldiers. Health professionals are crucial advocates for the rights of the child. Humanitarian and human rights organizations, including the World Health Organization, Physicians for Human Rights, the Centre for Victims of Torture, and the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, actively advocate for the right of children to have access to medical care, especially in times of armed conflict.
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 29
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- [Reparations for children and the restoration of children’s rights]: The International Criminal Court is the first international tribunal to include reparations to victims of war crimes in its mandate. It established the Trust Fund for Victims, which is tasked to provide general assistance in the form of physical rehabilitation, material support and psychosocial counselling to victims of international crimes in countries where the Court has jurisdiction, and to implement Court-ordered reparation awards. The Trust Fund has introduced an innovative approach to reparations in two ways: it is not linked to any specific case before the Court and supports victims both individually and collectively; and it is financed through basket funding from States and voluntary donations, which means that reparations are not limited to the financial means of the convicted person. Following the judgement in the Lubanga case, the Court and the Trust Fund will deal with legal and practical questions on the implementation of the reparations mandate, which may have implications for the larger child protection community.
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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