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Publications

Region-wide

Region-wide

By country

By country

By type

By type

Factsheets

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UNICEF in Action

UNICEF in Action

Child protection

Child protection

Child Poverty Insights

Child Poverty Insights

Monitoring & Evaluation

Monitoring & Evaluation

Surveys

Surveys

Emergency M&E

Emergency M&E

Facts and Figures

Facts and Figures

Communication for Development

Communication for Development

Meetings & Workshops

Meetings & Workshops

Sexual exploitation

Sexual exploitation

N'Djamena Child Soldiers Conference

N'Djamena Child Soldiers Conference

 

Documents and links

© UNICEF/Cameroon/2008/Asselin

Children refugees from Central African Republic in Northern Cameroron.

International standards related to children and armed conflict:

• Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (2000)
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)
• International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (1999)
• African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the African Child (1999)
• Geneva Conventions (1949) and Additional Protocol I & Additional Protocol II (1977)
• Security Council resolutions 1261 (1999), 1314 (2000), 1379 (2001), 1460 (2003), 1539 (2004), 1612 (2005)
• Paris Principles (2007)
• Machel 10 Year Strategic Review (2007) - follow up to the Landmark "The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children" (1996)

In addition to these international instruments and norms, there are also national legislation and concrete commitments on children and armed conflict taken by parties to conflict.

Key documents

• Report of the Secretary general on children and armed conflicts A/64/742

Other documents

• Assessment of DCOF-Supported Child Demobilization and Reintegration Activities in Sierra Leone, Evaluation Report, USAID, (2002)
• Project of Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Angola, Christian Children's Fund (1998)
• Child Soldiers: Prevention, Demobilization and Reintegration, CPR Dissemination Note, World Bank (2002)
• Reintegration of Youth into Society in the Aftermath of War, Alcinda Honwana, The Open University (2006)
• Guns, Camps and Cash: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reinsertion of Former Combatants in Transitions from War to Peace, Journal of Peace Research, nº4 2004
• Role of Education and the Demobilization of Child Soldiers - Aspects of an Appropriate Education Program for Child Soldiers, USAID (2007)
• Promoting Psychosocial well being Among Children Affected by Armed Conflict and Displacement: Principles and Approaches, Save the Children, Working paper nº1, 1996
• Recommendations to Promote Psychosocial Well-Being of Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (Caafag) in Nepal, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) – Nepal (2007)
• Bibliography on child soldiers, Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR), Coalition to stop the use of Child Soldiers (2009)

For more information, visit:
- Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG CAAC)
- United Nations Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Resource Centre (UNDDR)
- The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
- Coalition to Stop the use of Child Soldiers

© UNICEF/NYHQ2007-0611/Pirozzi

Le comédien George Boutini divertit les enfants dans un Club pour les droits des enfants appuyé par l’UNICEF et l’UNMIL au Libéria. Le club soutient la réintégration des anciens enfants soldats dans leurs communautés.

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Instruments normatifs internationaux consacrés aux enfants et aux conflits armés comprennent:

Outre ces normes et instruments internationaux, il existe également des législations nationales et des engagements concrets pris par des parties à un conflit.

Documents et liens de référence

• Rapport de Secrétaire générale sur les enfnats et les conflits armés A/64/742