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During the first two weeks of September, Watchlist conducted field research in northern Uganda with South Sudanese refugees on attacks on medical facilities and personnel and denial of [...]

In May 2014, the UN Secretary-General first listed Boko Haram in his annual report on children and armed conflict for killing and maiming children and attacks against schools and hospitals, [...]

On August 21 and 22, 2017, Watchlist hosted its civil society partner from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in New York. Simon Kangeta, the Executive Director of the Association des Jeunes [...]

The Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict adopted its fifth conclusion on the situation of children and armed conflict in Sudan on June 14, 2017. The conclusions are based [...]

On August 3, 2017, the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict adopted its fourth conclusion on the situation of children and armed conflict in the Philippines based on the [...]

Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (Watchlist) and Save the Children collected more than 37,000 signatures on a petition calling on UN Secretary-General António Guterres to list all [...]

(AFP) – Adel, 15, hasn’t seen his parents for the past nine months, but that was the price to pay to escape the brutal rule of ISIS group  terrorists in his northern Iraqi hometown. [...]

Each year, at the request of the UN Security Council, the Secretary-General submits a report on children and armed conflict that provides information on grave violations committed against [...]

In multiple situations of armed conflict throughout the world, parties to the conflict routinely deny civilians access to humanitarian aid as a tactic of war. For example, in Yemen, the Saudi [...]

On May 25, 2017, the Security Council held a ministerial-level open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. The meeting focused broadly on the protection of civilians agenda as [...]