Protecting children in situations of armed conflict

Women in Peacekeeping and Conflict Situations Taskforce

Women and conflict situations

As he understood it, the peacebuilding mentioned in the draft optional protocol would be exclusively confined to post conflict situations, thus excluding conflict and pre conflict situations.

(a) delivering humanitarian, political or development assistance in peacebuilding, including in pre conflict, conflict and post conflict situations or

The scope of the protection should be extended to cover conflict and post conflict situations, including transitional reconstruction phases, but not pre conflict situations.

(c) Crises and post conflict situations

Several delegations expressed support for the interpretation that peacebuilding comprised operations undertaken in pre conflict, in conflict and post conflict situations.

Ms. Hampson noted that, in situations of armed conflict, international humanitarian law had more detail regarding issues of detention whereas in non conflict situations human rights law had more specificity.

Several countries are either in situations of conflict or emerging therefrom.

The rise in the number of casualties among humanitarian staff operating in conflict and post conflict situations was alarming.

Some of the abuses described in this report may be reproduced they may be perpetrated in situations other than conflict situations.

In 2004, grants to 17 organizations which address violence in conflict and post conflict situations in 21 countries totalled 900,000.

There are numerous examples of economies that have continued to function, even in conflict or potential conflict situations.

But these acts can take place during peacetime, emergency situations or situations of armed conflict.

What is a distinctive approach to generating jobs in post conflict situations?

Several speakers highlighted in particular the headway made in emergency and post conflict situations.

The report also discusses conflict situations affecting certain indigenous communities in the world.

Such developments strengthen our determination to continue our efforts in other conflict situations.

In post conflict situations, the reason that they so often revert to conflict, is not because elderly women get upset.

40 percent of all post conflict situations, historically, have reverted back to conflict within a decade.

Moreover, 8 of the 11 countries that have not yet reached the decision points are in conflict or post conflict situations.

The 2005 world summit outlined several policy frameworks important to millions of women and girls in conflict and post conflict situations.

First, in relation to peacebuilding, Jordan understands the scope of the Protocol to include operations beyond conflict and post conflict situations.

Those protracted conflict situations are terrible problems for the regions in which they linger.

The Secretary General's report elaborates on conflict situations in many parts of the world.

Countries in post conflict situations face significant challenges to the establishment of lasting peace.

We must remember that the Court's investigations are occurring in situations of ongoing conflict.

In Africa, which has a disproportionately large share of conflict situations in the world, the challenges of post conflict peacebuilding are particularly daunting.

We are not inventing something new for post conflict situations.

Some delegations expressed preference for the third preambular paragraph in the Chairman's text, which employed the terms conflict and post conflict situations .

The problem is that in post conflict situations, the capacity needed is much greater because of the after effects of the conflict.

The fourth element provides education for girls and boys in conflict, post conflict or emergency situations to introduce stability and protection in emergency settings.

The experience gained in the area of transitional justice reveals the increased need to coordinate all activities developed in conflict or post conflict situations.

Women know the price that they and their children have to pay in conflict situations.

In conflict situations, UNICEF will support capacities to monitor and report on child protection issues.

The accompanying letter announced the establishment of the Women in Peacekeeping and Conflict Situations Taskforce.

Nothing in the Protocol indicates that the term is limited only to post conflict situations.

Even in conflict situations, traditional entities, communities and civil groups can sometimes play critical roles.

For us at the World Bank, it has taken some time to recognize that the issues of post conflict situations are the same as those of non post conflict situations.

Speaking from Japan's experience, one challenge we face in conflict resolution and post conflict peacebuilding efforts is that there is no general template for handling all conflict situations.

It was further clarified that peacebuilding should be seen as a process and that the term was intended to encompass operations undertaken in pre conflict, in conflict and post conflict situations.

The importance of capacity building in this regard, admittedly difficult in many post conflict situations, was stressed.

(f) Closer collaboration with United Nations peacekeeping missions in situations of crisis and post conflict transition, and the use of lessons from such situations in the development context

Those limitations have become apparent in situations in which conflict has resumed, most notably in Liberia and Haiti.