Source: Security Council Report
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This is Security Council Report’s sixth Cross-Cutting Report on Children and Armed Conflict, continuing a series that began with the publication of our first report on the subject in 2008. These reports systematically track Security Council involvement in children and armed conflict over the years, highlighting emerging trends for the issue since it first emerged as a separate thematic agenda item in 1998. The present report covers relevant developments at the thematic level over the 2012-2013 period. It analyses Council action in country-specific situations relating to children and armed conflict, as well as the output of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. It examines two sanctions regimes—Côte d’Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—to illustrate the impact of sanctions on children and armed conflict. It also discusses Council dynamics and outlines some possible options that could help strengthen the Council’s work on this issue. One of the main conclusions of the report is that while in the last two years the children and armed conflict agenda has managed to retain the key elements that have made it a role model for other thematic issues on the agenda of the Council, there are signs that without additional effort to address persistent perpetrators it may be difficult to take this issue from prescription to implementation and accountability.
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