Resolution nº S/RES/1261 (1999) of the United Nations Security Council

• Issuer: Security Council of the United Nation

UNITEDUNITED S

NATIONSNATIONS

Security Council Distr.

GENERAL

S/RES/1261 (1999)*

30 August 1999

RESOLUTION 1261 (1999)

Adopted by the Security Council at its 4037th meeting,

on 25 August 1999

The Security Council,

Recalling the statements of its President of 29 June 1998 (S/PRST/1998/18),

12 February 1999 (S/PRST/1999/6) and 8 July 1999 (S/PRST/1999/21),

Noting recent efforts to bring to an end the use of children as soldiers in

violation of international law, in International Labour Organization Convention

No. 182 on the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst

Forms of Child Labour which prohibits forced or compulsory labour, including the

forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict, and in

the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in which conscripting or

enlisting children under the age of fifteen into national armed forces or using

them to participate actively in hostilities is characterized as a war crime,

1. Expresses its grave concern at the harmful and widespread impact of

armed conflict on children and the long-term consequences this has for durable

peace, security and development;

2. Strongly condemns the targeting of children in situations of armed

conflict, including killing and maiming, sexual violence, abduction and forced

displacement, recruitment and use of children in armed conflict in violation of

international law, and attacks on objects protected under international law,

including places that usually have a significant presence of children such as

schools and hospitals, and calls on all parties concerned to put an end to such

practices;

3. Calls upon all parties concerned to comply strictly with their

obligations under international law, in particular the Geneva Conventions of

12 August 1949 and the obligations applicable to them under the Additional

Protocols thereto of 1977 and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the

*Reissued for technical reasons.

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