In 2019, the international community marked 30 years since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which protects the rights of all children from [...]
In a new policy note, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict calls on governments to end the detention of children affected by armed conflict. It urges governments to adopt agreements that [...]
Since December 2019, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has spread to 216 countries and territories and claimed nearly one million lives globally. On March 23, 2020, UN Secretary-General Antonio [...]
On June 23, 2020, the United Nations Security Council held its annual open debate on children and armed conflict (CAAC), under France’s presidency. At the debate, the Special Representative of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
December 2019 – In a joint policy note, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict and Human Rights Watch highlight the increasingly worrying trend of military detention of children affected [...]