UN Security Council Resolution 1998 (2011) continued to expand the scope of the “list of shame” to include parties of armed conflict responsible for committing the grave violation of attacking schools and hospitals. With Resolution 1998, parties to an armed conflict can be listed in the Secretary-General’s Annual Report for committing any one of these violations: recruitment and use of child soldiers, killing and maiming of children, rape and sexual violence against children and attacks on schools or hospitals.
While emphasizing that schools and hospitals ought to be institutions of peace respected by all parties to conflict, Resolution 1998 will also allow the Security Council to consider, within one year, a broad range of options for increasing pressure on persistent perpetrators of violations and abuses committed against children in situations of armed conflict.