Incidents of violence such as hiring children, murders, mutilations, rapes and kidnappings in conflict countries remained high in 2021, with a significant increase in sexual violence, according to a UN report minimizing crime by NGOs. to Israel.
By 2021 “kidnapping, rape and other forms of sexual violence” [contra as crianças] A press release accompanying the release of the annual report by UN Secretary-General António Guterres has tragically increased by 20%.
The document analyzes several countries in conflict and, in an appendix entitled “The Shame List,” identifies those responsible for the violations – state and non-state authorities, as well as armed groups.
Alongside Ethiopia and Mozambique, Ukraine has become a target of increasing concern due to the ongoing armed conflicts in these countries.
In the document, last year the UN identified 23,982 serious violations of the rights of minors, including 22,645 committed in 2021 and 1,337 previously committed but newly confirmed last year.
While progress has been made in the release and conscription of detained children in some countries such as Mali, Nigeria and the Philippines, serious violations have occurred in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and Somalia. , Syria and Yemen.
In response, several NGOs reacted negatively to Guterres’ report.
“Not only did the Secretary-General place perpetrators of the armed conflicts in Ukraine, Ethiopia, and Mozambique on the ‘Shame List’, he did not provide meaningful information in his report about the brutal abuses suffered by children in these conflicts. Jo Becker of Human Rights Watch (HRW) complained .
“The removal from the ‘Shame List’ by Israeli forces, accused of killing 78 Palestinian children and maiming 982 in 2021, is another missed opportunity to hold them accountable as other forces and armed groups are included on the list. for very minor violations,” he added.
In a press release, the NGO Watch List on Children and Armed Conflict also denounced Israel’s desire to minimize its responsibility for its treatment of Palestinian minors.
She also lamented the “open disregard” of the lives of children in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Ukraine, as well as in other war-torn countries.
Virginia Gamba, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict, rejected criticism of Israel at a press conference and said she had been warned that Israel would be included on the “Shame List” in 2022. There has been an improvement in the performance of his forces.
source: Noticias
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