Armed conflict and children's rights.

1997 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 1385-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Wessells
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights

scholarly journals Children in Armed Conflict: A Human Rights Crisis in Somalia

Global Jurist ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Santino Jr. Fulo Regilme ◽  
Elisabetta Spoldi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
Rebel Groups ◽  
False Sense ◽  
Alternative Sources

Abstract Despite the consolidated body of public international law on children’s rights and armed conflict, why do armed rebel groups and state forces deploy children in armed conflict, particularly in Somalia? First, due to the lack of alternative sources of income and livelihood beyond armed conflict, children join the army due to coercive recruitment by commanders of armed groups. Their participation in armed conflict generates a fleeting and false sense of material security and belongingness in a group. Second, many Somali children were born in an environment of existential violence and material insecurity that normalized and routinized violence, thereby motivating them to view enlistment in armed conflict as morally permissible and necessary for existential survival.

scholarly journals ANAK SEBAGAI KELOMPOK RENTAN YANG TERDAMPAK KONFLIK BERSENJATA DAN SITUASI KEKERASAN LAINNYA

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Hana Hanifah ◽  
Meilanny Budiarti Santoso ◽  
Dessy Hasanah Siti Asiah
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Isu perlindungan anak merupakan isu yang mendunia. Segala bentuk aturan mengenai hak anak telah ditetapkan dan disetujui oleh hampir semua negara di dunia. Namun, aturan mengenai hak-hak anak yang telah dibuat sejak dulu tidak menjamin pelanggaran hak anak berakhir. Konflik bersenjata dan situasi kekerasan lainnya yang sampai saat ini masih sering terjadi dan membuat pemenuhan serta perlindungan hak anak harus menjadi perhatian utama semua pihak. Dampak konflik bersenjata dan kekerasan lainnya, membuat pemerintah, masyarakat dan organisasi pelayanan sosial harus bekerjasama untuk melakukan upaya pencegahan dan penanganan berbagai permasalahan yang dihadapi oleh anak yang terkena dampak tersebut. Metode yang digunakan dalam penulisan artikel ini adalah metode studi literatur dengan mencari relevansi antara teori yang sesuai dengan kasus atau permasalahan yang dikaji. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa pemerintah, aparat keamanan dan penegak hukum, para profesional termasuk pekerja sosial, serta masyarakat harus ikut andil dalam mengusut kasus-kasus konflik dan kekerasan yang melibatkan anak-anak dalam upaya pemenuhan dan perlindungan terhadap hak anak. Upaya menciptakan lingkungan yang peduli terhadap perlindungan anak dari konflik dan situasi kekerasan lainnya dapat menggunakan pendekatan manajemen kasus, para professional dan spesialis perlindungan anak dapat memfasilitasi penguatan lingkungan di sekitar anak untuk melakukan perlindungan terhadap anak dengan memastikan bahwa pendekatan yang dilakukan terstruktur dan diambil untuk mengidentifikasi, menilai, merencanakan, dan meninjau kebutuhan perlindungan terhadap anak.  The issue of child protection is a global problem. All forms of rules regarding children's rights have been established and approved by almost all countries in the world. However, the rules regarding children's rights that have been made since long ago do not guarantee violations of children's rights end. Armed conflict and other violent situations that still occur frequently and make the fulfillment and protection of children's rights must be the main concern of all parties. The impact of armed conflict and other violence, makes the government, society and social service organizations must work together to make efforts to prevent and deal with various problems faced by the affected children. The method used in writing this article is a literature study method by looking for relevance between theories that are in accordance with the case or problem being studied. The results of the study show that the government, security forces and law enforcement, professionals including social workers, and the community must take part in investigating cases of conflict and violence involving children in efforts to fulfill and protect children's rights. Efforts to create an environment that cares for the protection of children from conflict and other violent situations can use a case management approach, professionals and child protection specialists can facilitate strengthening the environment around children to protect children by ensuring that the approach taken is structured and taken to identify, assess, plan and review child protection needs.

‘The Intolerable Impact of Armed Conflict on Children’: The United Nations Security Council and the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 57-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Lee-Koo
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

The United Nations Security Council’s Children and Armed Conflict agenda is animated by a protection ethic. While the protection of children from violence in armed conflict is entirely appropriate, this article demonstrates that the Council’s singular focus upon protection goes beyond merely appropriate, and borders upon overbearing. The article traces the ways that dominant conceptualisations of children as ‘innocent victims’ has animated an agenda that focuses primarily upon their victimisation that, in turn, reinforces the legitimacy of the protection ethic. It argues that this excludes a nuanced understanding of the lived experiences of children in conflict. In this sense, the agenda is closed to exploring the ways in which children resist, adapt, shape, and survive conflict in ways that position them as agents of their own protection and – in some circumstances – agents of community resilience amidst conflict. Ultimately, this article argues that re-visioning children’s relationship to armed conflict provides a strategy to better ensure children’s rights and reflects their relationship to peace.

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