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Tolbert

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2012-09-19
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2012-09-19
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  1. “The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict has been instrumental in advancing that work, alongside with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, UNICEF, the International Labour Organization and other United Nations entities. Their mandates regarding children and armed conflict should be supported and strengthened. The challenge ahead is to translate progress at the international level into lasting change at the national level. We at ICTJ strongly believe that an integrated approach to accountability, through the full range of transitional justice mechanisms and increased support for national processes, will assist the Security Council and the community of nations in our efforts to end crimes against those most vulnerable among us - the children caught up in armed conflict.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source

  2. “I would strongly encourage the Council to support an integrated approach to accountability, one that pursues perpetrators and also provides acknowledgement and remedy for the violations suffered by victims and initiates a process of institutional reform. That can be done, in part, by calling for comprehensive transitional justice measures to form part of United Nations responses in tandem with action plans. Finally, and in closing, as the Council continues the significantprogressithas alreadymadeonaccountability for children, it should continue to recognize that the protection of children - and accountability for serious crimes and grave violations against them - are part of the Council's role in upholding peace and security.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source

  3. “During an interview with an ICTJ staff member, a formerchildsoldiertoldusthathewants acknowledgment that he was unable to finish his education because he was recruited, something that a truth commission could address. In contexts where action plans have been signed, as part of a transitional justice approach, truth commissions could by incorporating a focus on children reveal the root causes of the child soldier phenomenon. They could also serve to identify the multiple ways in which children have been affected and provide a forum to officially acknowledge the violations that victims have suffered. I urge the Council to consider action plans as a starting point for achieving accountability for violations against children.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source

  4. “ICTJ welcomes the recent signing of the Security Council mandated action plan for the release and reintegration of children associated with state armed forces. Alongside this, the complaints mechanism of the International Labour Organization has been an effective, if limited, accountability mechanism in Myanmar, in part because it has been able to balance awareness-raising and engagement with the military, with concrete consequences for recruiters of child soldiers. Currently, within the State armed forces, the consequences for recruiting children in Myanmar are less severe than the consequences for not bringing in enough recruits. That is one example of an incentive structure that needs to be turned upside down to guarantee that the recruitment of minors is stopped.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source

  5. “In much the same way that the monitoring and reporting mechanism brings together the United Nations and partners to document violations against children, we need to create synergies to provide remedies to the victims of those violations once documented. Recalling measures in its 2006 "tool kit" document, the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict should include in its country-specific recommendations "support to transitional justice and truth-seeking mechanisms, including support in the development and implementation of child-sensitive procedures" (5/2006/724, addendum). That leads me to my second point, which is to call for a greater focus on accountability in the context of action plans. As one example, Myanmar is a country where we have been actively engaged for several years.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source

  6. “In line with the Rome Statute, what the Democratic Republic of the Congo needs now is international support for national judicial processes, notably for national courts and comprehensive reparations programmes. I therefore call on the international community to support the efforts of victims to enforce existing national court decisions awarding reparations, as well as to encourage donors and the Congolese Government to help the Trust Fund for Victims implement reparations for communities affected by forced recruitment. The Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict should urge donors to support national processes that seek to achieve comprehensive accountability. In terms of expertise, the Working Group can also draw on the work of non- governmental organizations working on the ground.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source

  7. “In its first judgment the International Criminal Court convicted Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for the war crime of conscripting and enlisting children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. That was a crucial step in the process of establishing an internationally respected norm against the recruitment and use of child soldiers. But the Lubanga trial was never intended to address all perpetrators. We have observed in our work that the recruitment of children continues, and that many perpetrators enjoy impunity. In that context, the Security Council has the opportunity to use that step forward in international justice to leverage the verdict in the Lubanga case in order to strengthen national processes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source

  8. “Military and security forces or armed groups that engage in criminal acts, such as the recruitment of child soldiers, must be thoroughly restructured as part of a process of institutional reform, if such unacceptable practices are to be eradicated. Reparations are crucial if we are to send a message to child victims that the harms they have suffered were violations of their rights and that the State is committed to upholding those rights in the future. When such approaches are applied in an integrated and genuine manner, they promote civic trust and strengthen the rule of law. The Council has succeeded in raising awareness of the need to address violations against children internationally. It should also seek to leverage its position so as to strengthen and support national processes.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source

  9. “Accountability for Violations against children in armed conflict is best achieved through a comprehensive approach to justice that addresses not only the responsibility ofperpetrators but also the rights of victims within a broader process of social change. A comprehensive approach to justice should include truth-seeking, reparations and institutional reform, in addition to criminal prosecutions. Together, those are the key elements of transitional justice. If we are to effectively confront violations against children and their consequences, we must be able to understand the underlying causes and the patterns of their occurrence. Truth-seeking mechanisms, such as truth commissions, can address such factors.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source

  10. “Second, the United Nations should include a greater focus on an integrated approach to accountability for violations against children once action plans are implemented. Before discussing those two key measures, I would like to first address our understanding and our concept of accountability. For many, accountability is thought to mean criminal prosecutions. Prosecutions are, after all, essential for accountability. They send a clear message that certain violations will not be tolerated by society or by the international community. However, ICTJ's work over the past decade in over 40 countries has shown that, in isolation, prosecution is not enough.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source

  11. “Over the past five years, 20 action plans have been concluded by the United Nations with armed forces and armed groups, as part of the broader framework developed by the Security Council over the past decade. The action plans are a crucial first step in ending violations against children in situations of armed conflict. However, more needs to be done to end impunity for those crimes. I will therefore focus my remarks today on ways to achieve greater accountability in contexts where action plans have been signed or are being negotiated. There are two critical steps that the Council and its members can take to advance that aim. First, the Council should press States to leverage international resources and expertise to support national processes.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source

  12. “Mr. Tolbert: I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity and the invitation to participate in this open debate. I am very honoured to speak alongside Herve Ladsous and Anthony Lake. I am also very honoured to meet Leila Zerrougui today and to hear her remarks as the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) looks forward to working together with her office to bring an end to impunity for violations against children in armed conflict. The Council itself is seized with a number of situations that highlight the importance of that issue, perhaps most urgently the situation in Syria. The Council has already achieved many important advances on the protection of children in armed conflict.”

    2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838 (2012) · source