New York – A new report by the UN Secretary-General details the deep impact of armed conflict on children in the Sudan states of Darfur, South Kordofan, Blue Nile and Abyei. “Child recruitment and use declined during the period covered by the report,” declared Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed [...]
New York – In a new report on the impact of armed conflict on children in Somalia, the United Nations Secretary-General describes how grave violations against boys and girls were committed with impunity over the course of several years. This was due in part to the breakdown in law and order and the absence of [...]
Leila Zerrougui presents her Annual report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Statement by Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Presentation of the Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict to the Human Rights Council 31st Session of the Human Rights Council Geneva, Tuesday 8 March 2016 Please check against delivery Watch Leila [...]
Leila Zerrougui presents her Annual Report at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 8 2016.
Children gathered next to a water pump at a site for displaced people in Bangui, in December 2013. ©United Nations
In Syria, two boys head home after school in East Aleppo. Photo: UNICEF/UN06848/Al Halabi
Children attend school at Harsham Camp for internally displaced people in Erbil, Iraq. Photo: UNICEF/Wathiq Khuzaie
New York – Iraq has been engulfed in a wave of violence with dramatic consequences for children, states the second report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in Iraq, covering the period from 1 January 2011 to 30 June 2015. Killing and maiming, acts of extreme violence, the abduction of close to 1,400 [...]
