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Progress

• Positive engagement of the Government with OSRSG CAAC to put in place national preventive and accountability measures for all grave violations.

Challenges

• Grave violations against children in Jammu and Kashmir are concerning.

Recommendations

For the Government:

• To take preventive measures to protect children, including by ending the use of pellets against children, ensuring that children are not associated in any way to security forces, and endorsing the Safe Schools Declaration and the Vancouver Principles;
• To ensure that children are detained as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time, and to prevent all forms of ill-treatment in detention;
• To ensure the implementation of the Juvenile Justice Act (2015) to address the use of children for illegal activities and the situation of detained children