Code of Childhood and Adolescence (Law 1098 of 2006)

The Code of Childhood and Adolescents addresses numerous issues of direct relevance to the ‘Children and Armed Conflict’ agenda, including (as outlined in Article 20) protection for children against:

• rape and other forms of sexual violence;
• kidnapping, forced displacement, and illegal transfers to other countries;
• the general impact of armed conflict;
• recruitment and use by illegal armed groups;
• torture and all kinds of cruel, inhuman, humiliating and degrading treatment and punishment, forced disappearance and arbitrary detention; and
• anti-personnel mines.