![]() In March, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict released a policy note calling on the Secretary-General to put children’s rights up front and ensure a credible and accurate listing of perpetrators in 2017. ![]() Once listed, parties may only be removed by signing and implementing a concrete, time-bound action plan, negotiated with the UN. Including parties on the list of perpetrators enhances the protection of children in armed conflict by facilitating the UN’s engagement with the responsible parties to end grave violations. The listing of a party in the Secretary-General’s reports is not only a ‘name and shame’ strategy, it also triggers enhanced monitoring and reporting of the situation by the UN. This principle of ‘naming and shaming’ parties to conflict that commit grave violations against children in war is the cornerstone of the Security Council’s Children and Armed Conflict agenda. The first report was published in 2002, following a request made by the UN Security Council in Resolution 1379 (2001) which also called for a list of parties to conflict to be included in the annex of the Secretary-General’s annual report on children and armed conflict. Each year, at the request of the UN Security Council, the Secretary-General submits a report on children and armed conflict that provides information on grave violations committed against children.
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