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Organisation aims and activities: This is a specialist website for the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children
and Armed Conflict.

Further details: My mandate as Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict is, put simply, to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children at every phase of conflict: preventively before conflict erupts, in the midst of conflict, and in post-conflict situations. As a public advocate on behalf of children who are being abused and brutalised in situations of armed conflict and its aftermath, I have been working to build greater awareness of the problem and mobilise the international community for action. I have also promoted the application of both international norms and traditional local values that provide for the protection of children in times of conflict. I undertake political and humanitarian diplomacy and propose concrete initiatives to protect children in the midst of war. By the time my mandate expires, I hope to have succeeded in creating broad- based awareness of the fate of children affected by armed conflict and that global outrage at these continuing abominations will in turn have led to a world-wide movement of repudiation.

Operational level: International

Organisation type: United Nations agency

Areas of expertise: Armed conflict

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