I take the floor on behalf of a group of 38 Endorsing States of the Safe Schools Declaration, including Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Jordan, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Mozambique, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Yemen and Zambia. Stephane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General He calls on all parties to conflict to engage with the United Nations to develop concrete measures to end and prevent grave violations against children and to provide support and relief to affected children. The Secretary-General reminds parties to conflict of their responsibility to protect children, in line with international humanitarian and human rights laws. He calls on all parties to exert maximum efforts in this regard. The Secretary-General reiterates that the best way to address this horrific situation is to promote peaceful solutions to conflicts. Despite some progress, the level of violations remains unacceptable. Children are also affected by other verified violations, including the recruitment and use of children by armed forces and armed groups, sexual violence and attacks on schools and hospitals.īoys and girls have once again been overly impacted by protracted and new violent crisis. The Secretary-General is outraged at this number, a significant increase compared to previous years and documented in his Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict published today. The United Nations has reliable reports of more than 10,000 children killed or maimed in armed conflict last year.
The United Nations has verified more 21,000 violations committed against children in 2017.
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