A/77/895-S/2023/363
United Nations
General Assembly
Security Council
Distr.: General
5 June 2023
Original: English
General Assembly
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 64 (a)
Promotion and protection of the rights of children:
promotion and protection of the rights of children
Security Council
Seventy-eighth year
Children and armed conflict
Report of the Secretary-General
I. Introduction
1.
The present report, prepared following consultations and covering the period
from January to December 2022, is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution
2427 (2018). The report includes trends regarding the impact of armed conflict on
children and information on violations committed, as requested by the Council in its
resolution 1612 (2005) and subsequent resolutions. 1 Where possible, violations are
attributed to parties to conflict and the annexes to the present report include a list of
parties engaging in violations against children, namely the recruitment and use of
children, the killing and maiming of children, rape and other forms of sexual violence
perpetrated against children, attacks on schools, hospitals and protected persons in
relation to schools and/or hospitals, 2 and the abduction of children.
2.
The information contained in the present report was vetted fo r accuracy by the
United Nations. Where information is not verified, it is qualified as such. Where
incidents were committed earlier but verified only in 2022, that information is
qualified as relating to an incident that was verified at a later date. The information
does not represent the full scale of violations against children, but provides United
Nations-verified trends in grave violations against children, given that access for
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See also the relevant reports of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in specific
country situations, in particular in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (S/2022/745), Iraq
(S/2022/46), Mali (S/2022/856), Nigeria (S/2022/596), the Philippines (S/2022/569), Somalia
(S/2022/397) and the Sudan (S/2022/627), and the report of the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict to the Human Rights Council on children and
armed conflict (A/HRC/52/60).
For the purposes of the present report, the phrase “protected persons in relation to schools and/or
hospitals”, used in Security Council resolutions 1998 (2011), 2143 (2014) and 2147 (2018), as
well as in the statements by the President of the Security Council of 17 June 2013
(S/PRST/2013/8) and 31 October 2017 (S/PRST/2017/21), refers to teachers, doctors, other
educational personnel, students and patients.
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