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UN Security Council
Resolution 1612 |
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| Date: | 26 July 2005 |
| Meeting no.: | 5,235 |
| Code: | S/RES/1612 (Document) |
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| Vote: | For: 15 Abs.: 0 Against: 0 |
| Subject: | Children and armed conflict |
| Result: | Adopted |
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| ALG ARG BEN BRA DEN | |
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| Child soldier in the Soviet Union (1944) | |
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1612, adopted unanimously on July 26, 2005, after recalling resolutions 1261 (1999), 1308 (2000), 1314 (2000), 1325 (2000), 1379 (2001), 1460 (2003) and 1539 (2004), the Council established a monitoring and reporting mechanism on the use of child soldiers.[1]
More than 50 governments and rebel groups would be monitored after the passing of the resolution.[2]
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In the preamble of the resolution, the Security Council recognised progress in developing guidelines to protect children in armed conflict, but in practice, their rights were still violated with impunity and there was lack of progress on the ground. Furthermore, it highlighted connections between the use of children and illicit arms trafficking.
As with previous resolutions on the topic, the Council condemned the use and recruitment of child soldiers. The Secretary-General Kofi Annan was asked to implement the following mechanism of reporting and monitoring children in armed conflict:
A working group was also established to monitor the reports of the mechanism and make recommendations.[3]
The Security Council noted the lack of progress in implementing Resolution 1539 and expressed its intention to impose sanctions against countries which violate international law relating to children in armed conflict and are also on the agenda of the Security Council.[4] It was the responsibility of the country teams of the United Nations to conduct follow-up work on Security Council resolutions.
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