The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and the Permanent Missions of Belgium and Sweden to the United Nations, have the honor to invite you to a High-level event to launch the “Practical guidance for mediators to protect children in situations of armed conflict” This event will take place on the [...]
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Remarks by SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba Excellencies, colleagues, Allow me to warmly thank the co-sponsors of today’s event; Belgium, the Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea and France for organizing a session on such a timely topic. Thank you also to colleagues from MINUSCA and Geneva Call for [...]
Geneva Peace Week Interactive Panel on: Reintegrating Children as a contribution to Peace and Security: Delivering Long-term and Sustainable Solutions Remarks by Ms. Virginia Gamba Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict 6 November 2018 Maison de la Paix, Geneva Excellencies, dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Switzerland [...]
“All of us here today agree on the importance of reintegration to help former child soldiers reclaim their lives. However, despite our efforts, we are still unable to assist everyone,” highlighted the Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs of Belgium, Didier Reynders, at the opening of the event: Funding the Future: Challenges and Responses to the [...]
Chief Child Protection Advisers (CPA) from Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan were gathered in New York on 19 September to brief Member States, Officials and Partners on the crucial transversal work done by CPAs in the field to better protect children living in areas affected by conflicts. The event Protecting Children [...]
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 [...]
