Resolution vedtaget på særmøde i Rådet i New York, hvor Rusland og Kina afstod fra at stemme og dermed ikke blokerede beslutningen ved at nedlægge veto, udtrykker dyb bekymring over fortsat grove overgreb mod børn i konflikt. 52 aktører står på en “skammens liste.
NEW YORK, 19 September 2012: The UN Security Council Wednesday demanded that parties to armed conflict which commit grave abuses (overgreb) against children, including those who recruit and use children, kill and maim (lemlæster), commit sexual violence or attack schools and hospitals, immediately halt such practices and take special measures to protect children.
At its meeting on the issue of children and armed conflict, the Council expressed deep concern that certain perpetrators (misdædere) “persist in committing violations and abuses against children in situations of armed conflict in open disregard of its resolutions on the matter,” in a resolution adopted by a vote of 11 in favour with four abstentions (afstå fra at stemme).
The Council members which abstained were Azerbaijan, China, Pakistan and Russia.
Violations continue to be committed against children, the number of persistent perpetrators has increased, and many new challenges have arisen.
The Secretary-General’s latest report on children and armed conflict, released in June, named 52 parties on its ‘list of shame’ of those who recruit and use children, kill and maim, commit sexual violence or attack schools and hospitals. It included four new parties in Sudan, Yemen and Syria.
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At the same time, since last September, five new action plans to halt and prevent the recruitment and use of children were signed, between the UN and parties in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia and Burma.
Also, Somalia’s then-transitional authorities last month became the first party to sign an action plan to prevent the killing and maiming of children by its national forces.
“There has been tremendous progress, more than we have seen in previous years,” the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, told the Council.
“However, violations continue to be committed against children, the number of persistent perpetrators has increased, and many new challenges have arisen,” she added.
Ms. Zerrougui, who took up her post earlier this month after serving for four years with the UN peacekeeping mission in the DR Congo, said the situations in Libya, Syria and Mali pose new threats for children which the Council, along with her office and its partners, must address.
“The situation for children in Syria is dire,” she said, noting that there are documented attacks on schools, of children denied access to hospitals, and of children being subjected to torture, including sexual violence.
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Begynd fra: “In Libya, the localized violence and continued presence….”
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