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Silvio Gonzato

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2021-06-28
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  1. “We encourage the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to continue to secure agreements on new action plans and support the implementation and monitoring of existing ones. The European Union also places high value on accountability, including through the International Criminal Court. Children must be given full access to justice. The European Union is strongly engaged in the conflict prevention agenda and is dedicated to foster the implementation of the children and armed conflict agenda. The COVID-19 pandemic shall not stop us in these efforts. It is important to further operationalize the children and armed conflict agenda and ensure that the right of the child is a priority in all our efforts in building back better.”

    2021-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/617 (2021) · source

  2. “The European Union recognizes the real value and impact of the United Nations children and armed conflict mandate and its tools: the Working Group chaired by Norway, the monitoring and reporting mechanism, the action plans, and the annual report with its annex listing parties to conflicts that have committed grave violations. It is of utmost importance to protect its integrity and impartiality, including the application of the criteria and procedures for listing and de-listing parties. Every year, European Union Member States review the European Union list of priority countries on children and armed conflict, based on the description of the country situations in the Secretary-General annual report.”

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  3. “This means concretely: (1) to ensure mainstreaming of the children and armed conflict agenda across the work of the Council; (2) to invite the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to continue her briefings to the Council on relevant country situations; (3) to raise the children and armed conflict agenda, especially child protection, during Security Council visits; and (4) to ensure that child protection is preserved in peace missions, including in transitions, and well budgeted, and it is addressed in relevant mandate discussions of all United Nations missions.”

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  4. “The European Union will step up its efforts to ensure meaningful child participation, build, and strengthen child-friendly justice and child protection systems. Against this background, the European Union calls on the members of the Security Council to deal with children and armed conflict as a matter of priority and with unprecedented dedication.”

    2021-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/617 (2021) · source

  5. “We call on all Member States to accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. We welcome other initiatives and instruments that build on the existing framework, such as the Paris Principles and their commitments, the Vancouver Principles. The Safe Schools Declaration is also a valuable tool to this end. The protection and the promotion of the rights of the child are central to the European Union’s human rights policy. The children and armed conflict agenda is included in the 2020–2024 Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy and the 2021 European Union Strategy for the Right of the Child. It is mainstreamed across the work of the European Union, including our common security and defence policy missions.”

    2021-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/617 (2021) · source

  6. “Sexual and reproductive health-care services, legal and livelihood support and services to survivors of grave violations must also be ensured. This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict – a mandate that the European Union strongly supports. We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Gamba and her Office for their tireless efforts over the past year. It is time to build on the gains made and address future challenges. Child protection must be a central element of prevention, early warning, mediation, and conflict resolution efforts. United Nations peace operations must be mandated and financed accordingly. We thank all child protection actors for their crucial and dedicated work.”

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  7. “The European Union calls upon Member States and non-State actors to improve access to safe and quality education, in line with General Assembly resolution 74/275. The European Union will continue to focus on supporting education in situations of armed conflict and to advocate for unhindered access to education with a particular * The Republic of North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Albania continue to be part of the stabilization and association process. focus on girls. Tailor-made assistance will facilitate the release and reintegration of children associated with armed forces and groups, including mental health and psycho-social support. We underline that the specific needs of girls and children with disabilities require special attention.”

    2021-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/617 (2021) · source

  8. “School closures and the closure of other education facilities are of special concern as they have suspended the education of millions, impacting the right to education. For many children, education remains out of reach due to insecurity, the digital divide and a lack of remote learning opportunities in certain contexts. The suspension of education increases the risk of drop-outs, and has led to forced labour and recruitment by armed groups and forces. School closures also reinforce exposure to all forms of violence, including child, early and forced marriage. They can lead to increase the military use of education facilities, which hinders children from resuming their studies. That is why integrating education into the humanitarian-development- peace nexus is important, as it can help to overcome these challenges.”

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  9. “The European Union urges parties to armed conflicts, state and non-State alike, to immediately end all violations against children and fully implement international humanitarian, human rights and refugee law, including by providing for concrete and effective protection. The COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected public health systems capacities already strained by armed conflicts, and led to closures of schools and other education facilities. Meanwhile, widespread attacks against schools and hospitals continued and even increased in certain areas. On certain occasions, restrictions were misused to impede the timely and effective delivery of humanitarian assistance. We call upon all Governments to allow and facilitate safe, rapid and unimpeded access for all frontline medical and humanitarian workers to people in need.”

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  10. “The continued denial of humanitarian assistance as well as the multiple cases of killing and maiming, the increase of recruitment and use of children by parties to armed conflict as well as attacks against schools and hospitals are of great concern, too. We are deeply disturbed by and condemn the shocking rise in cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence, a violation that predominantly affects girls and which remains vastly underreported. We are also shocked by the sharp increase in the number of child abductions. In light of these new and worrying trends, combined with the multi-faceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we must redouble our joint efforts to protect children.”

    2021-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/617 (2021) · source

  11. “I am pleased to submit this statement on behalf of the European Union and its Member States. The candidate countries the Republic of North Macedonia,* Montenegro,* Serbia* and Albania,* the country of the stabilization and association process and potential candidate Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, and Georgia, align themselves with this statement. The European Union thanks the Estonian presidency of the Security Council for organizing this debate and extends its gratitude to the briefers. The European Union is concerned by the findings of the Secretary-General report that verified 26,425 grave violations, which affected 19,379 children in 21 situations.”

    2021-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/617 (2021) · source