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Summary: Annual Report presented at the 65th Session of the UN General Assembly in October 2010.
The present report is submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to resolution 51/77 and subsequent resolutions on the rights of the child. It covers the period from August 2009 to August 2010. The report outlines critical child protection themes in the context of the changing nature of conflict and its impact on children. It describes an overall situation in which children continue to be the victims of grave violations in situations of conflict around the world, and a prevailing climate of impunity with respect to perpetrators. Under the overarching frame of the changing nature of conflict, section I of the report highlights critical child protection themes and issues that require concerted attention and action. Section II focuses on addressing the impunity of perpetrators of grave violations against children, including through the judicious use of sanctions and other targeted measures, and stresses the imperative to undertake dialogue specifically for child protection purposes with all parties to a conflict. Section III 2010 marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. In this regard, the report also highlights the two-year campaign launched by United Nations system partners for the universal ratification of the Protocol by 2012.
identifies opportunities to strengthen child protection in United Nations peacemaking and peacekeeping engagements, an area that has seen significant gains in recent years in terms of more consistent and concerted focus on the protection of children.