UN: Report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Iraq

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The  report was prepared pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1612 (2005) and 1882 (2009). It is the first report on the situation of children and armed conflict in Iraq to be presented to the Security Council and its Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. It covers the period from January 2008 to December 2010.

The report highlights trends and patterns of grave violations committed against children in the context of the continuing conflict in Iraq, such as the recruitment and use of children; including use of children as suicide bombers, the killing and maiming of children and attacks on schools and hospitals. The report also identifies parties to the conflict responsible for such grave violations.

 

Read more on the six grave violations monitored under UN Security Council Resolution 1612

Read also the new United Nations report on children and armed conflict in the Central African Republic

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/Children_armed_conflict_Iraq.pdf

Articles: 
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Article 38: Armed conflicts
Organisation: 
UN Security Council
Attachment Link: 
http://www.crin.org/docs/Children_armed_conflict_Iraq.pdf
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Countries

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