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  • Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict 

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On July 26, 2005, the Security Council unanimously adopted United Nations Security Council Resolution 1612 on the protection of children affected by armed conflict. This groundbreaking resolution built on child protection efforts in the previous resolutions and set out important advancements for the protection of children at the ground level and for holding perpetrators of violations accountable. With the adoption and implementation of SCR 1612, the children and armed conflict agenda became a hallmark of the Security Council’s thematic work, through the establishment of a Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and of the UN-led Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) on Children and Armed Conflict and its operational country-level Task Forces. The MRM and its Task Forces monitor and report on six grave violations:

1. Killing and maiming of children
2. Recruiting and using child soldiers
3. Attacks against schools or hospitals
4. Rape or other grave sexual violence against children
5. Abduction of children
6. Denial of humanitarian access for children