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Open Letter to the Secretary-General on the 2020 Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict

June 22, 2020 – In an open letter to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, 25 nongovernmental organizations, including Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, express their disappointment with [...]

Joint NGO Statement on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict

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May 2020 – In a joint statement, 22 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including Watchlist, call on UN Member States to strengthen action to protect civilians in armed conflict. The statement [...]

Open Letter to the Secretary-General on Attacks Against Health Care in Yemen

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On May 15, 2020, a group of nongovernmental organizations wrote a public letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Virginia [...]

January 2020 Princeton Workshop Report

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May 18, 2020 – The report from Watchlist’s January 2020 annual workshop on children and armed conflict, hosted jointly with Princeton University’s Liechtenstein Institute on [...]

Open Letter Calling for a Complete and Accurate List of Perpetrators

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May 11, 2020 - In this open letter, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict joined XX nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in calling on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to publish a [...]

“A Credible List”: Recommendations for the Secretary-General’s 2020 Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict

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April 20, 2020 – The UN Secretary-General should apply the same standards to all warring parties that violate children’s rights, said Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict in a new policy [...]

Factsheet on the Impacts of COVID-19 on Children in Armed Conflict

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April 20, 2020 – As of mid-April 2020, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has claimed approximately 150,000 lives globally, even as governments put in place measures to mitigate its spread. On March [...]

Joint Letter to the UN Security Council on COVID-19 and Its Working Methods

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On April 17, 2020, Watchlist and 29 other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) wrote to the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations, in its capacity as president of the [...]

Joint Statement on the Trump Administration’s New Landmine Policy

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In response to the January 31st announcement by the White House of the Department of Defense’s new landmine policy, we, the undersigned organizations, strongly condemn the Trump Administration’s [...]

Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism: The Erosion of Children’s Rights in Armed Conflict

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January 2020 – In this policy note, Watchlist examines how counterterrorism efforts are impacting the rights of children in conflict-affected countries, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Mali, [...]