IOM has inaugurated a new community centre in the seaside town of Léogâne, west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The town was levelled by the massive earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010.

The centre features a media room, modern offices equipped with computers and printers, classrooms and workshop rooms and can accommodate up to 154 people at a time. It will be used by the public for educational and recreational purposes.

Geneva (ICRC) – The lives of ever more men, women and children are heavily dependent on humanitarian aid.

I. Introduction

1. Le présent rapport portant sur la période allant de janvier à décembre 2010 (ainsi que sur certaines situations qui ont subsisté au-delà de la période considérée) est soumis en application de la déclaration du Président (S/PRST/2010/10) du 16 juin 2010, par laquelle le Conseil m’a prié de lui présenter un rapport sur l’application de ses résolutions 1261 (1999), 1314 (2000), 1379 (2001), 1460 (2003), 1539 (2004), 1612 (2005) et 1882 (2009) et des déclarations présidentielles sur le sort des enfants en temps de conflit armé.

New York, 19 November 2010 - Tomorrow, 20 November is Universal Children's Day, a day to celebrate youth and to demonstrate our universal belief that childhood is sacred for all girls and boys. Millions of children around the world, however, are denied a safe home and community, a functioning school and a protected playground. Growing up in conflict, their innocence is stolen when they are abducted from schools, recruited to fight, wounded or killed, separated from their families and emotionally as well as physically scarred for life.

We remember the needs of the children

General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 65 (a)
Promotion and protection of the rights of children

Security Council
Sixty-fifth year

I. Introduction

1. The present report, which covers the period from January to December 2009, is submitted pursuant to paragraph 19 of Security Council resolution 1882 (2009), by which the Council requested me to submit a report on the implementation of that resolution, resolutions 1261 (1999), 1314 (2000), 1379 (2001), 1460 (2003), 1539 (2004) and 1612

NEW YORK, 5 August 2009 - UNICEF welcomes the UN Security Council's unanimous adoption yesterday of a new resolution, Resolution 1882 (2009), which heralds a stronger protective environment for children in situations of armed conflict and an increased level of accountability for those who violate their rights.

Security Council resolution 1612, adopted in 2005, established the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM), which addresses six grave violations of children's rights: the recruitment or

CS/9722

Conseil de sécurité
6176e séance - après-midi

Le Conseil de sécurité a, cet après-midi, prié le Secrétaire général de mentionner les parties à un conflit armé qui « commettent systématiquement des meurtres et mutilations d'enfants » ainsi que des « viols et autres formes de violence sexuelle contre les enfants » dans les annexes à ses futurs rapports sur les enfants et les conflits armés.

« Profondément préoccupé par le fait que les enfants continuent à représenter un nombre considérable des victimes » de ces crimes, le Conseil, dans sa résolution 1882 (2009), adoptée à

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Twelfth session
Agenda item 3

PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

I. INTRODUCTION

1. The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 51/77 and other subsequent resolutions of the Assembly on the rights of the child, including its most recent, resolution 63/241, in which the Assembly requested the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict to continue to submit

SG/SM/12211
HR/4977
SC/9647

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks to the Security Council meeting on Children and Armed Conflict in New York, today, 29 April:

Madame President, Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa of Mexico. Thank you for your participation and organizing today's important debate. You have shown great commitment to this issue, including as Chair of the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict.

Madame President, before I go further into my remarks, I am very much relieved and encouraged by what you have