ကုလလံုျခံဳေရးေကာင္စီ "ကေလးမ်ားႏွင့္လက္နက္ကိုင္၀ိေရာဓိေကာ္မတီ" (CAAC)

ကုလလံုျခံဳေရးေကာင္စီ "ကေလးမ်ားႏွင့္လက္နက္ကိုင္၀ိေရာဓိေကာ္မတီ" (CAAC)

The Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) was established in July 2005 pursuant to the Security Council resolution 1612 (2005). Consisting of the 15 Security Council members, the Working Group meets in close session to:

1) Review the reports of the monitoring and reporting mechanism (MRM) referred to in paragraph 3 of resolution 1612 (2005)

2) Review progress in the development and implementation of the action plans mentioned in paragraph 5 (a) of resolution 1539 (2004) and paragraph 7 of resolution 1612 (2005);

3) Consider other relevant information presented to it.

4) Make recommendations to the Council on possible measures to promote the protection of children affected by armed conflict, including through recommendations on appropriate mandates for peacekeeping missions and recommendations with respect to parties to the conflict;

5) Address requests, as appropriate, to other bodies within the United Nations system for action to support implementation of Security Council resolution 1612 (2005) in accordance with their respective mandates.

The monitoring and reporting mechanism seeks to monitor the following six grave abuses:

1. Killing or maiming of children;

2. Recruiting or using child soldiers;

3. Attacks against schools or hospitals;

4. Rape and other grave sexual violence against children;

5. Abduction of children;

6. Denial of humanitarian access for children.

By December 2010 the Working Group had considered over 30 country reports, making specific recommendations for each context and taking concrete actions towards parties to the conflicts via the Chairmen of the Working Group and the Council.

In addition to these country-specific reports of the Secretary-General, the United Nations Secretariat also submits for consideration of the Working Group at its bimonthly meetings a horizontal reporting note that highlights relevant development in all situations of concern for children. The horizontal reporting note represents a vital tool to flag critical emerging situations and update developments in other situations of concern.

Discernible progress has been observed as a result of the recommendations of the Working Group, including drawing the attention of the Security Council as well as its sanctions committees to specific issues. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after an initial delay, the Government brought to trial former Mai-Mai Commander Kyungu Mutanga, alias "Gedeon", for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the recruitment of 300 children in Katanga Province from 2003 to 2006. This action follows strong recommendations by the Working Group to take appropriate legal measures against members of armed groups accused of grave crimes against children.

Report of the activities of the SCWG of 2007, 2008 , 2009, 2010 and 2011.