the impact of children in armed conflicts and in the violence community on children

Insecurity prevents thousands of children from accessing quality education and health care while schools and hospitals continue to be targeted, and despite being victims, children remain unlawfully in detention for their alleged or actual association with armed forces and groups, they said. Borrell added that “only a fraction” of those released from armed forced and groups are benefiting from reintegration programmes.

The senior officials also voiced concerns that despite global commitments and efforts, “children around the world continue to suffer from the consequences of conflicts and are still being used as expendable fuel of war.” Children are tragically paying the highest price and we have the joint responsibility to build a sustainable system that protects all children at all times”, the officials added.

“Education opportunities, already disrupted by war and displacement, are further vanishing. “Armed forces and armed groups continue to recruit and use children, tearing them away from their families and communities, cruelly stripping away their dignity and destroying their lives and their future”, they said.

The impact of children in armed conflicts and in the violence community on children