Call on all parties to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights law (IHRL), and to end and prevent grave violations against children, including by engaging with the UN to sign and implement action plans to end and prevent all six grave violations against children urge the MPC, FPRC, and UPC to fully and swiftly implement their respective action plans and release all children still in their ranks.Children accounted for half of all civilian casualties caused by explosive remnants of war (ERW) in 2022, compared to just six percent in 2021. The LRA was found responsible for 53 percent of these violations, including the abduction, recruitment, and use of 20 children. According to the SG’s February report on MINUSCA ( S/2023/108), the Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) verified 97 grave violations against children between October 2022 and January 2023.
In June, the SG is expected to report on the situation in CAR and MINUSCA, pursuant to SCR 2659 (2022).
Local militias known as anti-balaka, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and the Front populaire pour la renaissance de la Centrafrique (FPRC), Mouvement patriotique pour la Centrafrique (MPC), and Union pour la paix en Centrafrique (UPC) as part of the former Séléka coalition, are all listed in the annexes of the Secretary-General’s (SG) 2022 annual report ( S/2022/493) on children and armed conflict (CAAC) for various grave violations against children.
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