The children and armed conflict agenda need s to be fully integrated into all peace and security-related activities and throughout the conflict cycle, including in conflict analysis, early warning, peace processes and mediation, and security sector support. Measures to ensure sustainable and longer-term financial support are needed. Employing a Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus approach, effective programmes must address not only children’s most urgent humanitarian needs, but also their long-term and sustainable access to health care, mental health and psycho-social support, and education. To end and prevent child recruitment and to reintegrate victims, we are actively supporting family and community-focused programmes that are conflict, gender and age-sensitive, as well as disability-inclusive. We encourage all partners to endorse other international instruments such as the Paris Principles and Commitments, the Safe Schools Declaration, and the Vancouver Principles. With one voice, we continue to call for the universal ratification and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC) to end once and for all recruitment and use of children under 18 years. Protecting children amidst conflicts from violations and abuses is at the forefront of our efforts.
They are forced to experience unbearable levels of violence, deprived of their childhood and their right to an education, and are left with deep physical and psychological scars that last a lifetime.ĭespite being victims, children recruited into armed forces or armed groups often face stigma. Children around the world remain disproportionally affected by armed conflicts.
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