Abduction of children in Africa

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2005 Abduction of children in Africa

Condemns the practice of abduction of children

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(j) The abduction of women and children by tribal groups and other militias

Child abduction and trafficking in children were also a grave problem.

These measures contribute to tackling the challenge of the abduction of children of concern to UNHCR. General measures for the protection of refugee children, including those related to education, make children less vulnerable to becoming victims of exploitation, including sexual exploitation or abduction.

While UNHCR works actively to counter abduction of children in refugee camps, it should be noted that abduction of refugees in urban settings is a bigger problem.

(d) The efforts of the Government of the Sudan to combat the abduction of persons, in particular the work of the Committee on Elimination of Abduction of Women and Children

(f) The efforts of the Government of the Sudan to combat the abduction of persons, in particular the work of the Committee on Elimination of Abduction of Women and Children

(d) The efforts of the Government of the Sudan to combat the abduction of persons, in particular the work of the Committee for the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children

In resolution 2005 43 on the abduction of children in Africa, the Commission on Human Rights strongly condemned the spread of abduction of children for various purposes, inter alia, for involvement in armed conflicts and for sexual exploitation and forced labour.

(iii) The abduction of women and children to be subjected to forced labour or similar conditions

The warrants include allegations of murder, abduction, sexual enslavement, mutilation, rape and the forced enlistment of children.

(h) The magnitude of the problem of abduction of children by the Lord's Resistance Army, in particular in northern Uganda

Expressing its appreciation to those African countries that have established national mechanisms to ensure greater protection of children, including measures to combat and eliminate abduction of children,

(d) To stop immediately the abduction and murder of relief workers and cease without delay the conscription of children as combatants

Expressing its appreciation to those African countries that have established formal and informal mechanisms to ensure greater protection of children, including measures to combat and eliminate abduction of children,

That can only be realized if children can be saved from forceful abduction by terrorists to become child soldiers.

In 1999, following the large scale abduction of Dinka women and children from Bahr al Ghazal by the Baggara tribes of South Darfur and West Kordofan, and amidst mounting international pressure for an immediate government response, the Government of the Sudan established the Committee for the Eradication of the Abduction of Women and Children (CEAWAC).

The abduction of children in Liberia remains a complex issue as many children were variously affected, including through forcible recruitment into armed groups, coercion into commercial sex, and child trafficking.

While a clear picture of abduction of children in Africa has yet to emerge, challenges persist in data collection and analysis regarding the phenomenon.

Encourages the independent expert for the study on violence against children to complete his study on the protection of children against all forms of physical and mental violence, including child abduction in Africa

The Office sought to identify already planned meetings which would serve as forums for the discussion of abduction of children in Africa among relevant actors.

(vi) The continued abduction of women and children by Murahaleen groups and other government militias and their subjection to forced labour or similar conditions

In 2002, the Child Abduction Project determined its 2002 2006 objective as the reunification of at least 4,000 abducted children with their respective families.

In particular, the rape of refugee women as a weapon of conflict and the abduction and humiliation of refugee children continued to be routine features of displacement situations.

The abduction and recruitment of children, trafficking in small arms and light weapons and the illicit exploitation of natural resources often go together and reinforce each other.

On that occasion, she chaired the session on Vulnerability of children in armed conflict with respect to exploitation, violence and sexual abuse and disseminated the resolution and a background paper on the abduction of children in Africa.

Also condemns the abduction of children from camps of refugees and internally displaced persons by armed groups and armed forces, and their subjection of children to participation in hostilities, torture, killing and rape as perpetrators and as victims

Urges those States that have established national mechanisms to combat the abduction of children to report on the progress of those mechanisms to the Office of the High Commissioner

Encourages the independent expert to direct an in depth study of the question of violence against children to complete his study on the protection of children against all forms of physical and mental violence, including child abduction in Africa

Also condemns the abduction of children from camps of refugees and internally displaced persons by armed forces and armed groups, and their subjection of children to participation in fighting, torture, killing and rape as victims and as perpetrators 3.

Also condemns the abduction of children from camps of refugees and internally displaced persons by armed forces and armed groups, and their subjection of children to participation in fighting, torture, killing and rape as victims and as perpetrators 3.

(d) Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of the abduction of children in Africa (Commission resolution 2005 43, para. 14)

In paragraph 16, the resolution requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit at its sixty first session a report on the abduction of children in Africa.

Urges those States that have established national mechanisms to combat the abduction of children and to report on the progress of those mechanisms to the Office of the High Commissioner

Information was also provided on the situation of the abduction of children in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and actions taken by the respective United Nations missions.

Condemns the practice of abduction of children for various purposes, inter alia, for involvement in armed forces or armed groups, for participation in hostilities, for sexual exploitation and forced labour

Welcomes the progress achieved in the eradication of abduction of children by some national mechanisms and encourages other States that have not yet done so to consider establishing such mechanisms

(i) To continue and to reinforce its efforts to prevent and stop the abduction of women and children that is taking place within the framework of the conflict in southern Sudan

Children are, in most cases of armed conflict, the first victims and the ones most likely to suffer loss of loved ones, abduction, injury, death or sexual exploitation girls in particular.

As reported in the recently released The State of the World's Children 2005 Childhood Under Threat, the abduction of children by parties to a conflict has significantly increased in recent years and requires greater attention if effective prevention methods are to be developed.