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Machel

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2002-05-07
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2002-05-07
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  1. “Listening to their stories, their questions and their concerns will surely motivate us to act more urgently to prevent conflicts and to protect children. There can be few catalysts that will more effectively shatter the political inertia that has allowed armed conflict to ruin the lives of millions.”

    2002-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4528 (2002) · source

  2. “Monitoring of the implementation of Security Council resolutions on children and armed conflict must be strengthened. When you see - and you will - that implementation is too slow or ineffective, please use your power to promote new measures to admonish those who break international law or fail to carry out your initiatives and, when necessary, to instigate disciplinary measures to force Governments, United Nations agencies and international organizations into better and more urgent action to prevent conflicts in order to protect children. The Security Council is to be commended for its vision of and commitment to social justice, which has moved it to invite children to address this meeting. I hope that hearing from the people most directly affected by conflict will be a regular occurrence in this important forum.”

    2002-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4528 (2002) · source

  3. “Even as we meet today, the might of the international community seems unable to stop the criminal situation in which tens of thousands of children from northern Uganda are being abducted and forced into military and sexual slavery - a situation that has continued for a period of more than a decade. In refugee camps throughout the world, education remains out of the reach of large numbers of children, instead of being the protective, guiding and empowering force that it has the potential to be. Every day that a child lives in fear or pain or is in danger from the violence of war is another day on which we have not done enough. As the Security Council of the United Nations, you are in a stronger position than most to ensure the protection of children.”

    2002-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4528 (2002) · source

  4. “Six years after the original United Nations report highlighted the dangers of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation for children caught up in armed conflict, we are still only just beginning to implement effective protection measures, as highlighted by the recent distressing reports coming out of Sierra Leone. We can point with pride to the demobilization of 3,500 child soldiers in southern Sudan last year - the result of the tireless work of the United Nations Children's Fund, several non-governmental organizations and concerned Governments. Yet children in as many as 85 countries continue to live with the reality of abduction and forced recruitment into military groups.”

    2002-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4528 (2002) · source

  5. “The prevention of conflict is the primary mandate of the Security Council - indeed, of the United Nations. We know that the best way to protect children in armed conflict is to prevent such conflict from beginning. It is essential that the Security Council increase its efforts to develop and implement mechanisms that enforce its decisions and guidelines on the prevention of conflict. Otherwise, the cycle of conflict will never end and millions of children will continue to die from preventable diseases, continue to be forced from their homes and continue to be maimed, tortured and killed. The implementation of the measures promoted in General Assembly and Security Council resolutions is slow at best, and the improvements we have been pushing for are still only intermittently and dimly reflected in the everyday lives of children.”

    2002-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4528 (2002) · source

  6. “Other encouraging developments since the 1996 United Nations report on the impact of armed conflict on children was presented to the General Assembly include the introduction of the Ottawa Convention against landmines and the subsequent destruction of millions of stockpiled landmines; the strengthening of international legislative frameworks, including the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict; the introduction and strengthening of child protection mandates in peacekeeping missions; and the appointment of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. Yet there is so much more to do. In too many countries throughout the world, war continues to tear apart children's lives.”

    2002-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4528 (2002) · source

  7. “In addition, in the past few months and years the Council has held discussions and adopted significant resolutions aimed at promoting the protection of children and women in situations of armed conflict. Placing children at the centre of political agendas at the highest levels of the international community is an important shift in our attempt to promote the well- being of the world's children.”

    2002-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4528 (2002) · source

  8. “Ms. Machel: Thank you, Mr. President, for having invited me to attend this meeting of the Security Council. It is a measure of the progress that we have made in moving children to the centre of the international peace and security agenda that the meeting today is the second Security Council meeting in the past few months to focus on children and armed conflict. In a historic moment last November, the Council invited a young person to address a meeting. Today, as the General Assembly prepares for its first-ever special session specifically on children, the Security Council is enabling children themselves to interact directly with one of the most important organs of the international community.”

    2002-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4528 (2002) · source