![]() ![]() These are: implementing the UN’s children and armed conflict agenda, children’s right to have their voices heard, children’s right to education, and children’s right to health, including mental health. Taking as its starting point the protection of children, respect for the Convention on the Rights of the Child and international humanitarian law, and the six grave violations against children in armed conflict identified by the UN, Sweden’s work on children and armed conflict is guided by four priorities, not least in the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, of which Sweden is Chair in 2017–2018. These are a few examples from some of the currently ongoing conflicts. Because access to Rakhine State in Myanmar has been denied, the exact number of children killed is unknown. In Myanmar, 730 children are thought to have been killed between August and September 2017. In Yemen, 502 children were killed in the same year. In the 2017 Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict, which is based on data from 2016, more than 2 000 children in Syria and Iraq were verified as being killed. Some 125 million children are directly affected. More than 250 million children around the world are today affected by armed conflict. And those who are most defenceless in an armed conflict are children. War and armed conflict entail devastating consequences for individuals and whole communities. Margot Wallström - Children and armed conflict ![]()
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