![]() ![]() ![]() The report says that the secretary-general’s decision to remove the coalition from the list was based on a “significant decrease” in the number of attacks. In Yemen, the UN found that the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for attacks on at least 19 schools and five hospitals in 2017. “His decision undermines one of the UN’s most powerful tools to stigmatize human rights violators and hold them to account.” “The voluminous evidence in the report on violations against children in Yemen, Sudan, and Palestine show that the secretary-general’s ‘list of shame’ is tainted by completely unjustified omissions,” said Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. UN Security Council members should use the July 9 open debate on this year’s report to highlight the contradictions and double standards in the report and accompanying list, Human Rights Watch said. The secretary-general also fails to list Israel, Sudan, Iraq, and parties in Ukraine as responsible for violations against children. In the report, released on June 27, 2018, Secretary-General António Guterres announced that he was removing the Saudi-led coalition from the list of parties that have attacked schools and hospitals. (New York) – The United Nations secretary-general’s new report on children and armed conflict sets a damaging precedent by ignoring or downplaying some countries’ abuses in his annual “list of shame,” Human Rights Watch said today. ![]()
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