Terror groups, including Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), are not mentioned in Watchlist’s publication. In March 2018, the NGO umbrella group known as Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (Watchlist) published a Policy Note urging the UN Secretary General to add Israel, Myanmar, and others to a list of “grave violators” of children’s rights.Some children have even died in custody.Ma(updated on April 11, 2018) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Many children are never formally charged and are held incommunicado for indefinite periods of time. Security forces sometimes detain children in inhumane conditions, without sufficient access to food, health care, or education. Empowered by new or amended counterterrorism legislation, these governments are more likely to treat children recruited or used by armed groups as security threats or criminals. With the proliferation of counterterrorism strategies and policies, many governments have introduced new measures that lack adequate safeguards for children and have, in many cases, led to serious violations of their rights.Ĭhildren in these contexts are often doubly victimized they not only fall prey to violence and abuse from armed groups, but, in at least 15 conflict-affected countries, they are also imprisoned by government authorities for their alleged association with those groups. Counterterrorism and Detention of ChildrenĬonflicts today are increasingly intractable, intense, and complex, creating unprecedented threats to children’s rights.
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