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  1. “And imagine the pain endured by the families of the 14 children who never made it home at all, or the desperate worry felt by the families of the 16 others who were critically injured, left fighting for their lives in the hospital, or the other students who will live with the trauma of that day for the rest of their lives. In any conflict, children suffer first and worst. Since the fighting in Yemen began four years ago, 7,300 children have been killed or seriously injured. Those are the verified numbers. The actual numbers are no doubt higher. The fighting still rages across 30 active conflict zones - home to nearly 1.2 million children. Each day, another eight children will be killed, injured or recruited to the fighting.”

    2019-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8525 (2019) · source

  2. “Ms. Fore: May I add my thoughts to those of Mr. Griffiths and Mr. Lowcock. Last month, a group of schoolchildren in Sana'a were doing what children around the world do every day - sitting in their classrooms, learning. Most were under the age of nine. It was almost lunchtime, when a sudden incident shattered the windows. Shrapnel and broken glass flew into the classrooms. Imagine the fear that those children experienced. Imagine the horror their parents felt for sending them to school that day, all so they could gain what every child deserves - an education.”

    2019-05-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8525 (2019) · source

  3. “When faced with the escalating consequences of conflict to a generation of children who have never known peace, we - All of us - have a duty to act for the children and for the future of our world. Once again, I thank the Council for the opportunity to shine a light on this important issue. I look forward to its deliberations.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  4. “As most major conflicts are driven and perpetuated by political conflict, addressing them demands building political will - political will to increase resources to reach children and young people with the support they need, and build the human capital that every society needs to shape a resilient and sustainable future; political will to end to violations against children now; political will for all parties to conflict to adhere to humanitarian law and principles, not as a distant, utopian dream but as a practical and necessary pathway to a better future; and most of all, political will to end these conflicts, urgently, and to place peace first by placing children first.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  5. “And this year, as part of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali, we have helped train 2,500 young people to promote peace in pastoral and farming communities through local meetings, debates, radio broadcasts and social media. These are two examples of how children and young people are not just passive recipients of peace and reconciliation efforts, but how they can lead them. But as conflicts increase in number and ferocity, thousands of children are slipping through our safety nets worldwide. Civilians and communities are being targeted on a scale not seen since the Second World War. Consequences for violations are small, if they are imposed at all.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  6. “This includes raising awareness with commanders and community members to end recruitment and provide support, education and family- intervention plans for the released. This process not only led to the group's de-listing in the Secretary General's 2017 report (S/2017/82l); most importantly, it helped restart peace negotiations and it helped restart young lives. In Mali, children themselves are becoming agents of peace in their communities and raising awareness of the rights that every child has to protection, education, birth registration and health. Last year, UNICEF trained 310 children as Peace Ambassadors who go door to door in vulnerable communities to promote dialogue, peacebuilding and the importance of keeping children and young people - especially girls - in school.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  7. “We must invest in local solutions that address community fears and concerns, while giving these children the chance at a normal life that they deserve, including through quality education, training in life skills and work skills and psychosocial support. We also believe that child protection and upholding children's rights are a fundamental part of any peace process, which is why we welcome the Council's recent request to launch a process to compile guidance and best practices on weaving children's rights into peace negotiations. In the Philippines, for example, over the past decade UNICEF has worked closely with commanders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to release more than 1,850 children from its ranks and begin the process of reintegrating them into their communities.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  8. “Just today, the Nigerian army released 183 children - 175 boys and 8 girls - to UNICEF's care. These children had been detained for alleged association with Boko Haram. Today's action was the result of intense effort and engagement for their release. As we work for many more children to be released, we must also support these young lives as they reintegrate into their communities. Stigma is often the single biggest barrier. As we reintegrate a child into a community, we face difficult questions. How does a community view a boy who was part of a raid that killed a member of that community, or a girl who was abducted or abused by an armed group and has never been to school?”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  9. “As we renew our call on these conflicts to stop, we also call for zero tolerance of all violations against children - violations that fuel grievances that enflame and perpetuate conflicts across generations; violations like attacks on hospitals and schools, which is why we call again on States to endorse and implement the Safe Schools Declaration; violations like the deliberate targeting of children, which must stop; and Violations like detaining children for associating with armed groups or armed forces. We commend the Council's strong resolution 2427 (2018) - proposed by Sweden - on this issue. Too often, these children are locked up with adults and without legal representation, due process or contact with family members, all of which is contrary to international humanitarian and human rights law. Progress is possible.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  10. “In his lifetime, a seven-year old Syrian child has never known a peaceful Syria; an Afghan teenager has never known a peaceful Afghanistan. And let us consider what the children of South Sudan have endured and continue to endure - as they mark their country's seventh year of independence today. How can we prepare children to shape peaceful futures if they do not know what peace even looks like?”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  11. “In the short term, children's lives are in immediate danger not only from the violence itself, but also as basic services collapse. In Yemen, I visited hospitals staffed by workers who have nOt been paid in two years; where there are not enough respirators and medicine to go around; where mothers hold their frail, acutely malnourished children; where psychosocial workers counsel terrified children about the horrors they have witnessed and remembered. These immediate costs of conflict come with long- term consequences. If we fail to prevent violations against children today, we fail to prevent violence against children tomorrow. Today's children will grow up to see violence and conflict as normal, acceptable and inevitable. We need only think of the children who have grown up knowing nothing but war.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  12. “In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UNICEF worked with partners to release and reintegrate over 3,200 children from armed groups, and so far this year 806 children have been released from armed forces and groups in South Sudan and are receiving reintegration services. Our work must continue. Last year saw 21,000 verified violations against children - a dramatic increase from the year before - more children killed or maimed; more young survivors of rape; more recruited to the fighting; more abducted. And these are just the verified numbers. Our teams on the ground know that the number of violations is in fact much higher. As a global community, we must ask ourselves what will become of these young lives in both the short and long terms.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  13. “UNICEF is sparing no effort to support these children. In Iraq, for example, we reached 1.3 million children on the move with life-saving supplies like water and ready-to-eat rations, and almost 400,000 with psychosocial support last year. In South Sudan, we reached 780,000 children under the age of five with health, nutrition, water and sanitation for health, education and protection services. With our partners, we are also making progress in releasing children from armed groups and armed forces and supporting their reintegration. Last year, 12,000 children were reintegrated into their communities. For example, in the Central African Republic about 3,000 children received interim care, psychosocial support and family reunification services.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source

  14. “Ms. Fore: I appreciate the steadfast commitment of the members of the Security Council to the plight of children affected by armed conflict around the world. Today, one in every four children lives in a country affected by conflict or disaster. Like the statistics detailed in the Secretary-General's report (S/2018/465), one in every four children is a number almost beyond comprehension - almost, until you meet, as I have, the children and young people whose lives are being shattered by conflicts, for example in Yemen, Mali and South Sudan; the children who are malnourished and sick, at risk of being maimed or killed by a landmine or by delivered attacks on schools and hospitals; vulnerable to gender-based violence; recruited to fighting; losing hope not only in their futures but in the futures of their countries.”

    2018-07-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8305 (2018) · source