Specifically referring to the “suppression” of the children of Jammu and Kashmir by the Indian occupation forces, he said that an entire generation of Kashmiri children had grown up in a climate of unspeakable fear, violence, and repression that further aggravated since August 5, 2019, when India unilaterally annexed the occupied and disputed territory. In his remarks, Ambassador Akram said the fact that one in six of the world’s children lives in areas affected by conflict required that more must be done to ensure their safety, welfare, and prosperity. ![]() Last year, 27,180 grave violations were committed against children caught up in war – the highest number ever verified by the UN, according to Virginia Gamba, the secretary-general’s special representative for children and armed conflict, who presented her latest annual report. “This is, therefore the most visible anomaly in the report that the two blatant situations of foreign occupations perpetrated by Israel on the one hand and by India in Jammu and Kashmir on the other, are not listed in the report and are given a free pass,” the Pakistani envoy told the 15-member council on Wednesday. Speaking at the UN Security Council, which met under UK’s presidency, Ambassador Munir Akram highlighted the immense suffering of children under foreign occupation, saying they were going through “horrible experiences”. Pakistan has criticised the United Nations for not listing the two “blatant” situations of foreign occupation, perpetrated by Israel and India, in its report on ‘Children and Armed Conflict’, calling the omission the “most visible anomaly” in the document. (Release ID: 1936065) Visitor Counter : 3088Pakistan's UN Ambassador Munir Akram. In view of the measures taken by the Government to better protect children, India has been removed from the report in 2023. All statutory service delivery structures like the Child Welfare Committee and Juvenile Justice Boards under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015 have been established. of J&K with the participation of the United Nations. This was followed by a workshop on strengthening child protection held in Jammu & Kashmir in November, 2022 by the Ministry of WCD in collaboration with the MHA, and the Govt. The technical team of the office of the SRSG visited India on 27-29 July 2022. Smriti Zubin Irani, Union Minister of Women And Child Development, a road map for cooperation and collaboration on child protection issues was developed by the Ministry. ![]() Under the guidance and leadership of Smti. It led to an agreement to appoint a national focal point to identify priority national interventions to enhance protection of children, joint technical mission to hold inter-ministerial, technical-level meetings with the UN to identify areas of enhanced cooperation for child protection. The ongoing engagement of the Government of India with the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) sped up after an inter-ministerial meeting was held in November 2021 with Shri Indevar Pandey, the Secretary Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of External Affairs, Permanent Mission of India at New York, and the MHA from the Government of India, and Ms Virginia Gamba, Special representative of the Secretary-General for Children and the UN officials in New Delhi. The Government of India had been consistently engaged in efforts to exclude our country’s name from this ignoble list. India was being mentioned in the report of the Secretary-General on Children and armed conflict since 2010 along with other countries of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Lake Chad basin, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Philippines for alleged recruitment and use of boys by armed groups in Jammu and Kashmir detainment of boys by Indian security forces in J&K for their alleged association with armed groups, or on national security grounds children killed and maimed by Indian security forces, including by the use of pellets unidentified perpetrators, crossfire between armed groups and unidentified perpetrators, and crossfire and shelling across the line of control.
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