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  1. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks for Private Sector Roundtable: Solutions Summit to End Violence Against Children [as prepared for delivery]

    ... Goal 16, and its target of ending all violence against children, depends mostly on action from governments and civil society. But we ... in all sectors, and of all sizes, have a powerful impact on children. Respect for the dignity of every person is at the core of ...

  2. Note to Correspondents: SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict Calls on All Parties to Conflict to Strengthen Efforts to Protect Children in Sudan

    ... Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Children and Armed Conflict expressed her satisfaction at the progress made in ... Action Plan to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict signed in March 2016 by the Government of Sudan, but ...

  3. Secretary-General's remarks to Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict [as delivered]

    ... to change dramatically – but one grim reality does not: children still pay the highest price in wartime. Young boys and girls are ... as Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, children suffer through a living hell.  And in many cases, it is getting ...

  4. Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at United Nations High-Level Meeting on Children and the Sustainable Development Goals: Giving Every Child a Chance [as delivered]

    ... work in building safe environments and protecting vulnerable children around the world. Your World Childhood Foundation demonstrates your dedication to the imperative of creating a world where children simply can be children as they want and as we want them to be. ...

  5. Secretary-General's remarks to the Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict [as delivered]

    ... et militaires, et ce de différentes manières.   Children around the world are suffering enormously and unacceptably by ... girls and boys to act as suicide bombers.   We see children stigmatized for having been recruited and used by armed groups.   ...

  6. Secretary-General's remarks on World Children's Day

    ... these people are as important -- or as inspiring -- as the children I meet, like you.   Today, the day we celebrate the adoption of ... Rights of the Child,   I want to speak directly to the children in this room, and through them, to all children around the world.   ...

  7. Secretary-General's remarks at open debate of the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict

    ... to a very constructive discussion. The protection of children caught up in armed conflict has been among my main priorities as ... Since 1998, when the first Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict began work and the Council held its first open ...

  8. Remarks at a reception and concert for the children of Syria (as prepared for delivery)

    ... Thank you for organizing this event on behalf of the children of Syria. Last December I visited camps in Jordan and Turkey for ... Camp in Jordan my first impression was just how many children there were -- lining the road, cheering, running, full of fun and ...

  9. Secretary-General's message on Universal Children's Day [scroll down for French version]

    ... 20 November 2015 The Universal Children’s Day is dedicated to promoting the well-being and human rights of the world’s children, especially those suffering the impacts of poverty, armed conflict, ...

  10. Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the 2018 Children and Armed Conflict Report

    ... the increasing level of grave violations committed against children, as documented in the 2018 Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict. Last year, the United Nations verified more than ...