Despite the fact that children and youth face distinct atrocity risks, the international community has failed to tailor atrocity prevention to children and youth.Atrocity crimes impact children and youth in distinct ways, including through displacement, starvation, the disruption of key social services, such as education, and long-term psychological and physical impacts from being subject or witness to grave violations.In situations of armed conflict, children continue to be killed and maimed, including in indiscriminate attacks on schools and hospitals, recruited into armed forces and armed groups and detained, tortured, abducted, and subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence.In both conflict and non-conflict settings, children and youth face distinct risks when it comes to the commission of mass atrocity crimes, including through being intentionally targeted, abused or exploited. The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect would like to highlight the following key points from the report: The Secretary-General reflects on major priorities for protecting children and youth from atrocity crimes before concluding with recommendations on how to better protect children and youth. In doing so, the Secretary-General analyzes the distinct atrocity risks that children and youth face and provides an overview of advances that have been made in protecting them from atrocity crimes. The fourteenth report of the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), entitled “The Responsibility to Protect: Prioritizing Children and Young People,” considers the special needs of children and youth in contexts of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and the extent to which they are targeted and impacted by these crimes.
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