![]() ![]() ![]() The Council is expected to adopt a presidential statement during the briefing. The anticipated briefers are Secretary-General António Guterres, AU Peace and Security Commissioner Smaïl Chergui (by video teleconference) and Jo Becker, chair of the advisory board of the NGO network Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict. ![]() Belgian King Philippe and Queen Mathilde are expected to be in attendance, and King Philippe will make a statement. The meeting, initiated by Belgium, the chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and this month’s president, will be presided over by the country’s foreign minister, Philippe Goffin. Finally, the report presents key recommendations aimed at intensifying the actions of the international and the humanitarian communities and strengthening the programmatic response to better target and address the needs and vulnerabilities of all children living in situations of armed conflict.Tomorrow (12 February) the Security Council will hold a high-level briefing on “Integrating child protection into peace processes to resolve conflict and sustain peace”. The report also provides country-specific examples showing how direct engagement translated into the adoption of concrete measures, including national legislation and policies. The report examines how information on the documented patterns of grave violations is being used to respond to children’s needs and how engagement with parties to conflict – State and non-State actors alike – enables ending and preventing grave violations. ![]() The report 25 Years of Children and Armed Conflict: Taking Action to Protect Children in War presents key steps that the international community has taken to protect children in situations of armed conflict, with a specific focus on the Security Council-mandated Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) to document grave violations against children and to foster accountability by identifying perpetrators.īased on 16 years of data from the Secretary-General’s Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict, this report illustrates the impact that armed conflicts have had on children, by presenting trends of grave violations across the world and over time. ![]()
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