Ukraine

Advocacy

The Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups are listed in the annexes of the SG’s latest annual report on CAAC for killing and maiming and for attacks on schools and hospitals. In 2023, the UN verified 938 grave violations against 543 children. The most prominent grave violation was killing and maiming (419 children), followed by attacks on schools and hospitals (335) and abductions (122). In August 2023, the Government of Ukraine signed a joint prevention plan with the UN to prevent grave violations against children. The UN has indicated that the number of children killed and maimed in the first quarter of 2024 increased by 40 percent compared to 2023. On July 8, 2024, Okhmatdyt Hospital, Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, came under attack and sustained severe damage in a wave of Russian missile strikes across multiple cities. The strikes reportedly killed a total of 27 people, including four children, and injured an additional 117, including seven children. The Security Council should:

  • Demand that all parties uphold their obligations under IHL and IHRL, taking all feasible precautions to avoid harm to civilians, including children, and civilian objects;
  • Call for an immediate end to all attacks on objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, as well as education facilities, health facilities, and protected persons, and ensure that such actions are investigated and the perpetrators are duly prosecuted; take concrete measures to mitigate and avoid the military use of schools, pursuant to SCR 2601 (2021);
  • Demand that all parties allow and facilitate the safe, timely, and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance to affected populations, especially children; and respect and protect humanitarian personnel, assets, and infrastructure;
  • Urge the Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups to develop, sign, and implement an action plan with the UN to end and prevent grave violations against children;
  • Call on the Ukrainian Government to continue to implement its joint plan to prevent grave violations against children.

THERE IS NO DESIGNATED THE SECURITY COUNCIL PENHOLDER ON UKRAINE.

This information is based on Watchlist’s Children and Armed Conflict Monthly Update – August 2024.

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UN Action

Year listed: 2023
Action Plans Signed: N/A
Sanctions Committee: N/A
Secretary-General’s reports on CAAC in Ukraine: N/A
Security Council Working Group conclusions on Ukraine: N/A
UN Mission: N/A

Perpetrators listed in the annexes of the Secretary-General’s annual reports on children and armed conflict

2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Afghan National Police (including Afghan Local Police)~* a a a a a a a
Factions associated with the former Northern Alliance a
Factions in the south of Afghanistan a
Factional fighting groups a
Haqqani network* a a,b a,b a,b a,b a,b a,b
Hezb-e-Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar* a,b,c a,b a,b a,b a,b a,b
Hezb-i-Islami a
Jamat Sunat al-Dawa Salafia* a a a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d,e
Taliban forces/remnants of the Taliban* a a, b, d a,b,d,f a a,b a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d,e
Tora Bora Front* a a a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d,e
Latif Mansur Network* a a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d,e

a: Parties that recruit and use children
b: Parties that kill and maim children
c: Parties that commit rape and other forms of sexual violence against children

d: Parties that engage in attacks on schools and/or hospitals
e: Parties that engage in abduction of children
f: Parties that deny humanitarian access to children

~ This party has concluded an action plan with the United Nations in line with Security Council resolutions 1539 (2004) and 1612 (2005).
* This party has been in the annexes for at least five years and is therefore considered a persistent perpetrator.

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