Barbados+2

**__Committee: __** UNICEF **__Name: __**Samantha Lopez **__Period: __** 0 **__
 * __Country: __** Barbados
 * __Topic 2: __** Children in Armed Conflict

Background: __** As we all know children in armed conflict is against the Rights of the Child and no child should be put into recruited armed forces or conflict. Research shows that 250,000 children that are under the age of eighteen participate in 30 armed conflicts world wide and 40% of the children are victims. To define Children in Armed Conflict, it means that children who are under eighteen years of age are put into armed forces and conflict. Many children who are affected by the problem are either dying from horrible diseases, lack of nutrition, sexual violence and exploitation. Along with taking children, girls are the main target into being main victims. They are increasingly being put into more sexual abuse and are used as child-headed households. Many of these kids in general are affected with HIV/AIDS and need to be recognized as an international concern. These kids go through main pains and are being tortured, exposed in combat, separated from loved ones and yet used as soldiers. Them being in armed conflicts can impact a big part of their life, the way they express themselves is hatred among the world especially adults. However, child forces are strictly prohibited and people need to ensure that the impunity crimes against children in times of conflict, is to not be tolerated. United Nations Involvement: __**  T he United Nations UNICEF advocates the protection of Rights of the Child, and helps ensure that they meet on their basic needs, and expand opportunities to solve the international issue of children’s rights. Their objective is to provide conventions in order to set universal standards regarding health care, education, legal, and social, and civil services. The United Nations created this organization because they feel that having a child forced into prostitution, child labor, mutilation, should be taken serious and start taking action in the international community! In addition UNICEF is not the only one who is involved, CARICOM is another non-governmental organization who faces with the issue and has it prioritized. Stating that the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict, is the broad acceptance of the Convention Rights of Children and is due to the United Nations and agencies which helps increase the state capacitates in implementing Convention provisions. Their action against the issue is having children achieve economical and their social development. These concerns are conflicting of world poverty in a global economic crisis matter. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Solutions: __** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Re-stating the fact that children below the age of eighteen should not be participating in any type of armed forces. Since this has been a global issue for many years, there are many proposals that may or not have been addressed. According to the Children Rights convention many of these kids shall take part in education, have health care, and be involved with their social and economical lives. Funding for these kids to take part in their life is rally important and many of the organizations who help shall consider it to be more stabilized. This means that this issue should be heard worldwide and taken more into affect among others. More conventions discussing the rights of the child should be discussed more often. Therefore every kid counts and never leaves out any kid behind, because it can take affect into their life in general.
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 * __Country Policy and Involvement:__** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Research indicates that Barbados is quietly disturbed of the fact in using children for soldiers in armed conflicts. One thing they must face is that children have HIV/AIDS and its strictly pandemic and should not be tolerated. This undesirable trend leads to many horrible outcomes, such as babies being diagnosed with aids, children are under authority to household, because parents die of disease, so forth. Barbados speaks with CARICOM and is particularly discussing the global issue. In Barbados perspective, they thank UNICEF for providing a program to expand support for reproductive health and preventing sexuality to occur-transmitted diseases as well as HIV/AIDS in matters of taking action. In progress of emphasizing the issue, it will be brought into affect and to decline in official development assistance.
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Work Cited: http://www.un.org/children/conflict/pr/1998-10-2266.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bb.html http://www.un.org/ga/children/barbadosE.htm http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/gashc3853.doc.htm