Remarks by Ms. Virginia Gamba, SRSG-CAAC Please check against delivery Excellencies, dear colleagues, and welcome to our guest Kabba Williams, We are holding this meeting to explore how reintegration programs contribute to the well-being of children coming out of armed groups and forces, and to hear more about their impact on their communities. Reintegration is [...]
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and UNICEF Philippines held a formal ceremony today in recognition to the removal of the MILF from a UN list of armed groups recruiting and using children. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba and UN Resident Coordinator in the Philippines Mr. [...]
The implementation of the child protection measures included in the Colombian Peace Agreement between the Government and the FARC-EP is encouraging and lessons can be drawn from that process said the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba, following a two-day visit in Colombia where she met Government [...]
High-level Side Event on Release and Reintegration of Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups Remarks by the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Ms. Virginia Gamba 30 October 2017 Your Excellency, Mr. Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs, Mr. Anthony Lake, Executive Director of [...]
Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians and His Excellency Mr. Didier Reynders were in the event
High-level Side Event on rehabilitation and reintegration of children affected by armed conflict: “Sharing best practices on psychosocial rehabilitation and social reintegration in the field” Remarks by Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict 11 July 2016 Your Majesty, Your Excellency, Mr. Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and [...]
Girls who survived recruitment and use by armed groups and sexual violence, photographed after speaking with Special Representative Zerrougui in eastern DR Congo in 2013. Copyrights: OSRSG-CAAC
Internally displaced children, victims of conflict in Colombia. UN Photo/Mark Garten
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 [...]
Children are increasingly vulnerable to recruitment and use by armed groups as conflicts around the world become more brutal, intense and widespread, UNICEF and the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict said today to mark the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers. “While Governments of the world have made progress to [...]
