![]() ![]() States were urged to endorse and implement the Safe Schools Declaration to achieve safe, secure and high-quality education for all. ![]() The need to protect schools, teachers and students during armed conflicts was underscored. The health crisis had increased the vulnerability of children, making them more vulnerable to recruitment, due to the interruption of education, and it had made it more difficult to identify those who violated their rights. ![]() It was of key importance to ensure the unabated respect for international humanitarian and human rights laws by all parties to conflicts, while upkeeping accountability and fighting impunity. In the discussion on children and armed conflict, speakers said that the report emphasised the unprecedented challenges for the protection of children living in conflict zones, and marked sustained occurrence of grave violations against children, killing and maiming of children, recruitment of children, and denial of humanitarian access. The Convention on the Rights of the Child was only the first step and needed to be followed by implementation at the national level. A study had been conducted on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children in situations of armed conflict in the short term: one of the outcomes had been a request for a long-term study on the engagement of partners in conflict situations. ![]() Networks of child protection actors and monitors had been reinforced to better protect and respond to the crisis facing children and to ensure that monitoring and reporting continued, whilst living up to international standards. Gamba said the Country Task Force monitoring report and mechanisms had put in place communication methods in-country to respond to the pandemic. The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its interactive dialogue with Virginia Gamba, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict. ![]()
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