Leila Zerrougui: Vital efforts to protect children ‘an entry point’ for wider peace in Colombia
Children at school in Narino, Colombia. Photo: UNICEF/Roger LeMoyne
Afghanistan: Film Festival on Impact of Armed Conflict on Children
An actor addresses the audience of a film festival on the impact of conflict on children in Herat, Afghanistan. Copyrights: UNAMA
High-level Side Event on Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Children Affected by Armed Conflict
Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians and His Excellency Mr. Didier Reynders were in the event
Two Years of ‘Children, Not Soldiers’ Campaign Bring Tangible Progress in Afghanistan
On 16 February, the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and the Political Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hikmat Karzai, held a joint press conference in Kabul. ©UNAMA / Fardin Waezi
Afghanistan: Child Protection Units Keeping Children Away from National Security Forces
Ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of a new child protection unit in the Afghan National Police recruitment centre in Jalalabad. ©UNAMA
Leila Zerrougui joins chorus hailing Somalia’s ratification of child rights treaty
Leila Zerrougui is fourth from the left at Somalia’s deposit at United Nations Headquarters in New York of its ratification instrument.
International push needed to end child rights violations in Yemen – Leila Zerrougui
A boy holds a large piece of exploded artillery shell, which landed in the village of Al Mahjar, a suburb of Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. Photo: UNICEF/Mohamed Hamoud
Children, Not Soldiers: A Song to End the Recruitment of Children in DR Congo
As part of the national sensitization campaign on child soldiers launched by the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), a young artist from Goma, David Dube, composed a song to support the campaign “Children not soldiers”. " Children are our future, we need to give them the chance to go to [...]
UN Special Representative Urges Action to Protect Children in Nigeria’s War-torn Northeast
Children growing up in Nigeria’s crisis-riven northeast are in desperate need of protection from relentless violence, said Leila Zerrougui, the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, today as she wrapped up a weeklong visit in the country. On a day when the UN refugee agency has reported a steady stream of people [...]
A Decade of Action Plans to Protect Children Affected by Armed Conflict
Ten years ago, on 22 April 2004, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1539, which called on all parties listed for recruitment and use of children in the annexes of the Secretary-General’s report on children and armed conflict to “prepare […] concrete, time-bound action plans to halt recruitment and use of children […], in close [...]