409 Maria Concepción Pérez Villalobos Military advisers for gender and for the protection of children in armed conflicts of children affected by armed conflicts and the understanding that aggression against them has long-term consequences for lasting peace, security and development, and that protection of children should be considered an important aspect for any general strategy for the resolution of conflicts. Resolution 1261(1999) lists a set of crimes against children that have been detected in the most recent conflicts, underlining 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 inter-national law, and attacks on objects protected under international law, including places that usually have a significant presence of children such as schools and hospitals”33. Among the measures to eradicate these practices, the resolution puts forward a series of activities that make up the axis of all subsequent United Nations actions in this area: a) To take into account the protection, welfare and rights of children during peace negotiations and throughout the process of consolidating peace in the aftermath of conflict. b) To take special measures to protect children, in particular girls, from rape and other forms of sexual abuse and gender-based violence and to take into account the special needs of the girl child in the delivery of humanitarian assistance. c) To intensify efforts to ensure an end to the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict in violation of international law through political and other efforts, including promotion of the availability of alternatives for children to their participation in armed conflict. d) To facilitate the disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration of children used as soldiers. e) To take into account the particular needs of children in the delivery of humanitarian assistance, especially medical and educational services, the rehabilitation of children who have been maimed or psychologically traumatized, and child-focused mine clearance and mine-awareness programmes. f ) To ensure that personnel involved in United Nations peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding activities have appropriate training on the protection, rights and welfare of children. The Secretary General’s first progress report to this Resolution34 describes horrifying figures on violence against children in conflicts since its adoption. The adoption of an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child concerning their 33 United Nations Resolution 1261 (1999), of 30 August, § 2. 34 Report 712/2000, of 19 July 2000.
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