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Call on the Government to endorse the Paris Principles and Commitments, and encourage the development and signing of a handover protocol to facilitate the release of children to child protection actors for reintegration and other support services.

Recall that children should be treated primarily as victims, including children formerly or allegedly associated with armed groups designated as terrorist, their reintegration should be prioritized, and detention should only be used as a last resort and for the shortest appropriate time.Urge the Government to intensify efforts to remove administrative barriers hindering the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians, including children, to implement international legal instruments on improvised explosive devices (IEDs), landmines, and other ERW, and to promote mine clearance and mine risk education.Call on the Government to strengthen the national child protection framework, including by swiftly adopting and implementing the draft action plan to end and prevent child recruitment and use by the PMF.In 2021, 52 children were killed and 73 were maimed by ERW and unexploded ordnance, an increase from the previous year. Children continue to be killed and injured by explosive remnants of war (ERW) and unexploded ordnance, including four children killed and two maimed in a single week in February 2022. According to the SG’s February report ( S/2022/103), the UN documented the killing of nine boys and injury of 23 boys and two girls between October and December 2021. In May, UNAMI’s mandate is up for renewal, per SCR 2576 (2021). The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) are listed in the annexes of the Secretary-General’s (SG) latest annual report ( S/2021/437) on children and armed conflict (CAAC) for recruiting and using children, and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is listed for all five ‘trigger’ violations.

Watchlist on children and armed conflict twitter