On June 25, 2025, the United Nations Security Council held its annual open debate on children and armed conflict (CAAC) under Guyana’s presidency. The open debate offered an opportunity for UN [...]
December 2025 – The report from Watchlist’s August 2025 Geneva Policy Workshop on children and armed conflict (CAAC), hosted jointly with the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and [...]
November 2025 – Following Watchlist’s 2025 report examining general trends across 25 situations of concern included in the Secretary-General’s annual reports on CAAC, this report takes a [...]
August 2025 – Children in situations of armed conflict across the globe suffer the consequences of largescale violence from State armed forces and non-state armed groups (NSAGs). The [...]
July 2025 – The report from Watchlist’s January 2025 annual policy workshop on children and armed conflict (CAAC), hosted jointly with Columbia University’s School of [...]
April 2025 – In its ninth annual policy note, Watchlist makes recommendations to the UN Secretary-General regarding the list of perpetrators of grave violations against children in his [...]
December 2024 – The report from Watchlist’s August 2024 Geneva Policy Workshop on children and armed conflict (CAAC), hosted jointly with the Geneva Human Rights Platform of the Geneva Academy of [...]
November 21, 2024 – The listing of any party to an armed conflict in the UNSG’s list of perpetrators triggers the establishment of the formal MRM and the Country Task Force on Monitoring [...]
May 2024 – The report from Watchlist’s January 2024 annual policy workshop on children and armed conflict (CAAC), hosted jointly with Columbia University’s School of International and Political [...]
May 2024 – The use of explosive weapons, especially those in populated areas, is widely acknowledged to be a leading cause of harm to civilians in conflict settings. Among the civilian [...]
