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Elevate your understanding with the third edition of our Advanced Training Course on International Criminal Jurisdiction and Children in Armed Conflict!

🗓️ Save the date: June 10th - 21st, 2024.

#MakeADifference #JoinUs
#ActToProtect

On the International Day against the use of #ChildSoldiers , or #RedHandDay , we call for action to stop the recruitment, use and exploitation of children in armed conflict, and to support children affected by these practices. They are #ChildrenNotSoldiers .
#ACTtoProtect #CAAC

We 🇳🇴 call on all parties conflict to stop an prevent the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict and ensure their social reintegration into society.

#WPChildReintegration   #ChildrenNotSoldiers #ACTtoProtect #RedHandDay #RaiseYourRed

Les enfants doivent être épargnés des horreurs de la guerre. Tout simplement. Voici une déclaration conjointe des plusieurs ambassades à Kinshasa
#RedHandDay #EnfantsEnConflitsArmés #ChildNOTSoldier #CAAC #ActToProtect #RDC United Nations Human Rights Council ⁦Norway MFA NorwayUN Norway in Geneva 🇳🇴

🚸Use of children in war
🚸Killing
🚸Sexual violence
🚸Abduction
🚸Attacks on schools & hospitals
🚸Denial of humanitarian access

More must be done to protect children & to ensure accountability for violations of the rights of children.
#ACTtoProtect #ForEveryChild 🧒🏿🧒👧🏾🧒🏻👧🧒🏽👧🏼

🇧🇪 est fermement engagée pour l'élimination des violences sexuelles dans les conflits que ce soit en RDC ou ailleurs. Nous soutenons le Groupe d'experts des Nations Unies qui appuie les gouvernements dans leurs efforts pour mettre fin à ces atrocités. #ACTtoProtect #EndRapeInWar

مراكز قتل الطفولة
#مراكز_الحوثي_صناعه_للارهاب
#RedHandDay #ACTtoProtect #ChildrenNotSoldiers #ChildWarriors

Art 37 #CRC :
No child shall be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily.

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#ACTtoProtect #ChildRights #ForEveryChild

«Let’s unite forces to close the protection gap & to ensure respect for the international obligations to #ProtectChildrenInArmedConflict » - Tormod C. Endresen 🤝🏼

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📆 5-6 June
📍 Oslo, Norway

#CAACOslo2023 #ChildrenNotSoldiers #ACTtoProtect

173 countries have ratified the Optional Protocol of the #ChildRights Convention on the involvement of children in armed conflict, which bans the participation of children in hostilities. Still, this practice continues.

#ChildrenNotSoldiers #ACTtoProtect #NotATarget 🧒🏿🧒🏾🧒🏽🧒🏼🧒🏻🧒

On #RedHandDay , learn how United Nations peacekeeping is working to secure the release of children like Ndale from service in armed groups and forces: ow.ly/Eqil50QzQe4

UNMISS, United Nations_CAR, MONUSCO, Children and Armed Conflict 📍 #ACTtoProtect #ACTtoProtect #UnleashYourPotential

[Update Nov. 8/23] ABC TV: Abiy regime forces shot & killed a 13 year old child as they were traveling from #DebreMarkos to #Lumame in East Gojjam zone. The killing happened after regime forces suffered battlefield defeat to Fano.

📍Amhara region, Ethiopia
#ACTtoProtect

✋🔴 Today is the International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers . Join us in spreading the word that children have the right to be children, NOT soldiers. #ChildrenNotSoldiers #ACTtoProtect #RedHandDay

ℹ️ More details via: facebook.com/BelgianEmbassy…

Art 37 #CRC :
States Parties shall ensure that no child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

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#ACTtoProtect

Decades of conflict & natural disasters resulted in dire needs for shelter & NFI for some 9.7M people in Afghanistan.
To protect & provide shelter & non-food items support, humanitarians require $374M in 2023.

#ACTtoProtect #POCWEEK2023

Norway🇳🇴 calls on all parties in conflicts to

🔹stop and prevent the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict and
🔹ensure their social reintegration into society

#ChildrenNotSoldiers #ACTtoProtect #RedHandDay #RaiseYourRed

#PeaceBegins 🕊️ when we #ACTtoProtect children!

In Lakes, #SouthSudan 🇸🇸, #UNMISS trained 50 local uniformed personnel on upholding child rights & rule of law⚖️ + gender sensitivity.

'Our kids are the future. They deserve to be safe,' says a participant!

#A4P

No child should live the horrors of war. We must protect children in armed conflict.

At #UNSC ,🇨🇭called to strengthen prevention by

➡️Using existing mechanisms and tools efficiently
➡️Investing in education
➡️Focusing on reintegration of child soldiers

#ACTtoProtect #CAAC

Every year, over 10,000 children are killed in conflict, with 1,000s more recruited by armed groups, trafficked for sexual exploitation & deprived of education.

Intl' Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression reminds us to #ACTtoProtect them as every child is precious.

I raise my red hand in solidarity with #childsoldiers
Children should never have to face the scourge of war and much less be recruited and used as soldiers

#RaiseYourRed #RedHandDay2023
#acttoprotect #redhandday #OTD

#photo My hand through iPhone lense & paint app.