The Council also reiterated its call on States and the United Nations to mainstream child protection into all conflict prevention activities and encouraged them - along with regional and subregional organizations - to strengthen cooperation in promoting the integration of child protection issues into peace processes. Renewing its call on Member States, the Peacebuilding Commission and other parties to integrate child protection provisions into all peace negotiations, ceasefire and peace agreements, and those for ceasefire monitoring, the Council likewise renewed its call on them to ensure that the protection and empowerment of children affected by armed conflict are prioritized in all post-conflict recovery and reconstruction planning, programmes and strategies. “A strong focus is needed on combatting poverty, deprivation and inequality to prevent and protect children from all violations and abuses, in particular in the context of armed conflict,” the Council recognized.
In presidential statement S/PRST/2020/3, issued by Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve (Belgium), Council president for February, Council members stressed the importance of adopting a broad conflict prevention strategy that addresses the causes of conflict in order to enhance the protection of children. The Security Council reiterated its strong condemnation of all illegal recruitment and use of children by parties to armed conflict, as well as their re-recruitment, killing, rape and abduction, as the Secretary-General today launched a set of guidelines and the 15-member organ marked the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers.
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