Children in Somalia have continued to bear the brunt of conflict and endured alarming levels of grave violations despite tangible efforts by the Federal Government of Somalia, a new report of the Secretary-General on Children in Somalia shows. A total of 8,493 grave violations against 6,801 children were verified between October 2021 and September 2024. [...]
Press Statement: For Immediate Release The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child*, jointly call on Somalia to lift the imposition of the death penalty on any children and young adults sentenced to death for the conviction of crimes committed under the [...]
Joint press release by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten Press Release: For Immediate Release (New York, 05 August 2021) The Special Representatives for Children and Armed Conflict and on Sexual Violence in Conflict [...]
Children in Somalia have endured among the highest levels of violence of all countries on the Children and Armed Conflict agenda, with number of cases of recruitment and use, abduction and sexual violence exceeding those verified in other country situations, highlighted the fifth report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in Somalia. A [...]
Visit of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict to Somalia New York – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba, commends the commitment and engagement of the Federal Government of Somalia to speed up the implementation of the action plans signed with [...]
Original stories published by UNSOM, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia The federal Minister of Justice and Judiciary Affairs, Hassan Hussein Haji, reaffirmed his government’s commitment to strengthen child protection legislation during an event held in the Somali capital to commemorate the Day of the African Child. Minister Haji enumerated a series of steps [...]
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, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, (2nd right), briefs journalists at a press conference in Mogadishu, Somalia (21 July 2016). UN Photo/Omar Abdisalan
Leila Zerrougui is fourth from the left at Somalia’s deposit at United Nations Headquarters in New York of its ratification instrument.
Leila Zerrougui is fourth from the left at Somalia''s deposit at the United Nations in New York of its ratification instrument.
