Publications – Watchlist

Children and Armed Conflict Monthly Update – January 2020

This month’s update highlights children and armed conflict concerns and provides recommendations to the Security Council for the protection of children in Libya, Sudan (Darfur), and Yemen.

Military Detention of Children in Armed Conflict

Policy Reports

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 [...]

Children and Armed Conflict Monthly Update – December 2019

CAC Monthly Updates

This month’s update highlights children and armed conflict concerns and provides recommendations to the Security Council for the protection of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), [...]

Children and Armed Conflict Monthly Update – November 2019

CAC Monthly Updates

This month’s update highlights children and armed conflict concerns and provides recommendations to the Security Council for the protection of children in Iraq, Sudan/South Sudan (Abyei), and [...]

2018 Annual Report

Annual Reports

In 2018, children living in conflict zones suffered extreme, record-setting levels of violence, as warring parties flouted international law with near impunity. In this increasingly difficult [...]

Children and Armed Conflict Monthly Update – October 2019

CAC Monthly Updates

This month’s update highlights children and armed conflict concerns and provides recommendations to the Security Council for the protection of children in the Central African Republic (CAR), [...]

Children and Armed Conflict Monthly Update – September 2019

CAC Monthly Updates

This month’s update highlights children and armed conflict concerns and provides recommendations to the Security Council for the protection of children in the situations of Afghanistan, Libya, [...]

Children and Armed Conflict Monthly Update – August 2019

CAC Monthly Updates

This month’s update highlights children and armed conflict concerns and provides recommendations to the Security Council for the protection of children in the situations of Iraq and Sudan. It [...]

August 2019 Special Update – Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict

CAC Monthly Updates

On August 2, 2019, the UN Security Council will hold its open debate on children and armed conflict (CAC) under Poland’s presidency. Poland will seek to highlight the 10-year anniversary of the [...]