![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is exacerbated by the lack of direct human rights obligations for non-state armed groups. This makes governing the behaviour of non-state parties to non-international armed conflicts (non-state armed groups) extremely challenging. The international humanitarian law rules governing non-international armed conflict remain much less developed than those for international armed conflicts. ![]() Given the prevalence of non-international armed conflicts today, ways of ameliorating these situations are at the forefront of concerns. Gamba said, for example, last year three girls were gang raped in South Sudan “during five days of terror,” many boys were killed by an explosive device at a school in Afghanistan, a 14-year-old girl in Myanmar was abducted and burned alive, and an airstrike in Ukraine left a girl with amputated limbs.Situations of humanitarian crisis are often caused by armed conflicts. While armed groups were responsible for 50% of grave violations, Gamba underscored that governments were the main perpetrators of the killing and maiming of children and of attacks on schools and hospitals. The United Nations also verified attacks on 1,163 schools and 647 hospitals, a 112% increase from 2021, she said. The UN special envoy for children in armed conflict, Virginia Gamba, told the council that the 27,180 grave violations in 2022 were carried out against 18,890 children and included 8,620 who were killed or injured, 7,622 who were recruited or used by governments or armed groups in conflicts, 3,985 who were abducted, 1,165, almost all of them girls, who were raped, forced into marriage or sexual slavery or sexually assaulted. Life on the margins: The fate of Ukraine's forcibly deported children. ![]()
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