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Description: Monitors the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Receives and examines State Party reports. Search in OBL for CRC to access the various reports, statements and concluding observations when the CRC examined Myanmar?s initial report.
Source/publisher: United Nations
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Joint Statement by the UN Special Envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Dr. Najat Maalla M’jid The 1 February military takeover, led by the Commander in Chief of the Tatmadaw, halted Myanmar’s peaceful democratic transition and caused a violent ongoing multi-faceted crisis with grave impacts for children and their future. In the absence of peaceful and inclusive dialogue to end this situation, and the lack of unified international response, the United Nations continues to receive alarming reports of a growing number of children and youth seeking to join armed groups, while others have been displaced, detained, or are suffering. The abuse of children by all parties to the conflict in Myanmar has increased notably through the recruitment use and killing and maiming of children, in addition to ongoing attacks on schools and hospitals and protected personnel. The arbitrary detention of children is also a serious concern, while all children in Myanmar and those displaced by the fighting are experiencing various degrees of violence including mental and physical degradation. We urge all parties in Myanmar to immediately stop all child rights violations, retain, and enact domestic legislation criminalizing the six grave violations, promote all aspects of the Child Rights Law, and engage collectively in the protection of children from the ravages of conflict, including the prevention of their recruitment and use. The delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance for children in Myanmar has also been impaired by the crisis mainly through access and security constraints, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unrestricted humanitarian access to children must be granted through all existing channels in line with the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence. The United Nations calls on all parties to exercise utmost restraint to protect children and to respect their responsibilities under international law. Children should never, under any circumstances, be recruited or used in hostilities. The prohibition of the six grave violations against children in armed conflict must guide prevention efforts in Myanmar. The desperate situation of children in Myanmar and those displaced in neighboring countries, in particular the Rohingya children in Bangladesh, demands greater attention from the international community as well as from regional actors. The protection of children’s rights should remain a key priority by all stakeholders across the globe. Violence against children including their use and abuse by parties to armed conflict in Myanmar must stop. The children of Myanmar have the right to no less..."
Source/publisher: Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar and Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
2021-10-29
Date of entry/update: 2021-10-30
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Sub-title: A six-year-old girl has been shot dead in Myanmar, becoming the youngest known victim in the crackdown following last month's military coup.
Description: "Khin Myo Chit's family told the BBC she was killed by police while she ran towards her father, during a raid on their home in the city of Mandalay. Myanmar's military has been increasing its use of force as protests continue. Rights group Save the Children says more than 20 children are among dozens of people who have been killed. In total, the military says 164 people have been killed in protests, while the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) activist group puts the death toll at at least 261. The military on Tuesday expressed sadness at the death of protesters, while blaming them for bringing anarchy and violence to the country. But security forces have used live rounds against protesters, and there have been multiple eyewitness reports of people being beaten and sometimes shot as the military conducts house raids to arrest activists and protesters.....'Then they shot her': Khin Myo Chit's older sister told the BBC police officers had been searching all the houses in their neighbourhood in Mandalay on Tuesday afternoon, when they eventually entered their place to search for weapons and make arrests. "They kicked the door to open it," 25-year-old May Thu Sumaya said. "When the door was open, they asked my father whether there were any other people in the house." When he said no, they accused him of lying and began searching the house, she said. That was the moment when Khin Myo Chit ran over to their father to sit on his lap. "Then they shot and hit her," May Thu Sumaya said. In a separate interview with community media outlet Myanmar Muslim Media, their father U Maung Ko Hashin Bai described his child's last words. "She said, 'I can't Father, it's too painful'." He said she died just half an hour later while she was rushed away in a car to seek medical treatment. Police also beat and arrested his 19-year-old son. The military has yet to comment on the death. In a statement, Save the Children said it was "horrified" by the girl's death, which came a day after a 14-year-old boy was reportedly shot dead in Mandalay. "The death of these children is especially concerning given that they reportedly were killed while being at home, where they should have been safe from harm. The fact that so many children are being killed on an almost daily basis now shows a complete disregard for human life by security forces," the group said. Meanwhile on Wednesday, authorities released around 600 detainees held at Insein prison in Yangon (Rangoon), many of them university students. Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw was among those freed. He and other journalists had been held covering a protest last month. The AAPP says at least 2,000 people have been arrested in the crackdown so far. Protesters have planned for a silent strike with many businesses to close and people to stay at home. There are also plans for more candle-lit vigils overnight, both in Yangon and elsewhere.....Myanmar profile: Myanmar, also known as Burma, became independent from Britain in 1948. For much of its modern history, it has been under military rule Restrictions began loosening from 2010 onwards, leading to free elections in 2015 and the installation of a government headed by veteran opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi the following year In 2017, Myanmar's army responded to attacks on police by Rohingya militants with a deadly crackdown, driving more than half a million Rohingya Muslims across the border into Bangladesh in what the UN later called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".....Country profile: Correction 1 April 2021: An earlier version of this article gave Khin Myo Chit's age as seven years old. While in Myanmar's counting tradition this is correct, as the BBC uses Western conventions for age we have amended the article to describe her as a six-year-old girl..."
Source/publisher: "BBC News" (London)
2021-04-01
Date of entry/update: 2021-05-12
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Description: "The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba, congratulates the Government of Myanmar for ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC). Myanmar’s Union Minister for International Cooperation, His Excellency Mr. U Kyaw Tin, deposited the accession instrument during a ceremony that took place on the margins of the 74th General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York. “The international engagement taken today by the Government of Myanmar to better protect its children is a welcome step. It is a commitment to put in place all the necessary measures to protect them from recruitment and use by both its armed forces and armed groups active in the country”, said Virginia Gamba. Provisions on the demobilization and reintegration of all children under 18 and children presumed present in the ranks of Myanmar’s armed forces are also included in OPAC, a commitment already under implementation through the Security Council-mandated Joint Action Plan signed with the United Nations in 2012. The Special Representative calls on the Government of Myanmar to swiftly translate this commitment into tangible measures for the protection of boys and girls and to end and prevent all six grave violations against children, including the killing and maiming of children and rape and other forms of sexual violence..."
Source/publisher: "Mizzima" (Myanmar)
2019-09-30
Date of entry/update: 2019-09-30
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Sub-title: A three-year-old girl who it is alleged was raped at her nursery in Myanmar has given evidence via video link at a trial in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw.
Description: "The case of the toddler, who by law cannot be named, has caused outrage in the country. Campaigners have given her the name "Victoria". Police say the attack took place in May. A school employee is under arrest charged with raping her. But DNA evidence has been inconclusive and nursery staff dispute it was him. Police say a medical examination carried out after Victoria's mother had noticed her injuries and taken her to hospital showed the girl had been sexually assaulted. 'Nursery rape' of toddler leaves Myanmar reeling There have been widespread protests calling for justice for Victoria and for wider action to arrest an alarming rise in reported sexual assault, particularly towards children. Myanmar (also called Burma) is still a predominantly rural country and in some communities village elders oversee complaints - the alleged victim can even be encouraged to marry her attacker. Male rape is not even a recognised crime..."
Source/publisher: "BBC News"
2019-09-11
Date of entry/update: 2019-09-11
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Sub-title: U Kyaw Tin, Union minister of International Cooperation, submitted the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Assembly of the Union) on Wednesday.
Description: "“The objective of the protocol is to protect children from being recruited and used in armed conflicts. It is a very important international protocol in protecting children’s rights,” he said. In ratifying it, Myanmar would promise to protect children’s rights during armed conflicts in accordance with international law, he said. “By entering into this protocol, we can promote Myanmar’s image in the international community, and it will help us remove our country’s name from the list of those that use child soldiers,” he said. It would also protect citizenship rights. “We will have to implement legal arrangements and other plans, and educate children and other underage people about this,” he said. He also said that appropriate plans are needed to release those children forcibly recruited as soldiers, he said. “Appropriate support is needed for the physical and mental rehabilitation and re-entry into society of the released children,” said U Kyaw Tin..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times"
2019-08-30
Date of entry/update: 2019-08-31
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Description: "An explosion killed a Rohingya boy and his father and severely wounded another adult in northern Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township on Tuesday, according to a village official. The victims were identified as Mohamad Shofi, 38, his son Husson, 8, and Mohammad Shazam, an adult of unknown age, according to Ah Lel Kyun village administrative official U Win Hla Tun. Mohammad Shazam was transported to Sittwe Hospital for medical treatment this morning, U Win Hla Tun said. The victims were from Ah Lel Kyun, a village 8 km north of downtown Kyauktaw, said U Win Hla Tun. Ah Lel Kyun is a mixed community, with Buddhist and Muslim settlements within half a mile of one another, he said. U Win Hla Tun said there had been armed conflict between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw) on Monday but that the situation had returned to normal. Then, unexpectedly, there was an explosion near the village on Tuesday morning. He could not clearly determine the nature of the blast that occurred near Mohamad Shofi’s home..."
Creator/author: Moe Myint
Source/publisher: The Irrawaddy
2019-05-22
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-23
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: ''The Government of Malaysia should provide refugees with the rights to work and access education in order to end child marriage and ensure protections for refugee girls, said the Rohingya Women Development Network (RWDN) and Fortify Rights today. Malaysia Foreign Minister Saiffudin Abdullah said on Tuesday that the government is considering options to provide refugees with access to public schools, hospitals, and employment. “Children should be in school, not forced into marriage,” said Sharifah Shakirah, founder and director of RWDN in Malaysia. “We encourage the Malaysian government to urgently ban child marriage and provide refugee families with legal access to jobs, schools, and health care, which would advance refugee and child rights.” RWDN and Fortify Rights conducted 11 interviews in Malaysia and Bangladesh between 2018 and 2019 with Rohingya child brides, former child brides, family members of child brides, and men arranging to marry or married to child brides. During these interviews, Rohingya girls described situations of domestic servitude, beatings, and hopelessness in Malaysia. Rohingya families also cite economic hardship and insecurity as drivers of child marriage. “I am physically and verbally abused by my husband,” a Rohingya refugee girl, 16, told RWDN and Fortify Rights in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on February 1, 2019. “I want an education. I want to be a teacher. I am not happy about getting married.” Originally from Buthidaung Township in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, the 16-year-old girl married a 24-year old Rohingya man in Malaysia on January 1, 2018. The girl’s family arranged the marriage due to financial difficulties. She told RWDN and Fortify Rights that she is now confined to a one-bedroom apartment in Kuala Lumpur where she cooks and cleans, describing slave-like conditions in a situation of domestic servitude...''
Source/publisher: Fortify Rights
2019-02-21
Date of entry/update: 2019-02-23
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "After seven years of dialogue with Geneva Call on international humanitarian norms, a ground - breaking step has been taken by the Karen National Union/Karen National Liberation Army (KNU/KNLA). KNU/KNLA has signed Geneva Call?s Deed of Commitment for the Prohibition of Sexual violence in Situations of Armed Conflict and towards the Elimination of Gender Discrimination and the Deed of Commitment for the Protection of Children from the Effects of Armed Conflict. The ceremony took place in Pa?an in Karen/Kayin State on 21 July 2013 and gathered representatives of the senior leadership of the KNU/KNLA and Government officials, as well as representatives of the diplomatic community, NGOs and UN agencies..."
Source/publisher: Appel de Geneve, Geneva Call
2013-07-24
Date of entry/update: 2013-07-24
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Source/publisher: Appel de Geneve, Geneva Call
Date of entry/update: 2013-07-24
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Language: English
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Description: Summary table of provisions of international humanitarian law and other provisions of international law specifically applicable to children in war .....
Source/publisher: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
2003-01-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-23
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Myanmar gehört zu den Entwicklungsländern, die sich am meisten um das Wohlergehen der Kinder kümmern.? Das Zitat stammt aus dem zweiten Bericht über die Situation der Kinder, welcher die burmesischen Behörden im kommenden Mai dem UN-Komitee über die Rechte des Kindes (CRC)vorlegen werden. Ganz offensichtlich scheuen sich die burmesischen Militärmachthaber, die das Land in Myanmar umgetauft haben, nicht vor dicken Lügen auf dem internationalen Parkett. Denn: Die Lage der Kinder und Jugendlichen in Burma ist katastrophal, meinten einhellig die Fachleute aus Kinderschutz- und Menschenrechtsorganisationen, die anfangs Februar 2004 in Genf darüber berieten, wie der zunehmenden Ausbeutung von Kindern in Burma ein Riegel geschoben werden kann.
Creator/author: Christine Plüss
Source/publisher: akte
2004-04-00
Date of entry/update: 2004-05-19
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Deutsch, German
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Description: The State Law and Order Restoration Council... The Child Law... (The State Law and Order Restoration Council Law No. 9/93)- The 11th Waning Day of 1st Waso, 1355 ME (14 July, 1993)
Source/publisher: State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)
1993-07-14
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: CRC/C/8/Add.9.
Source/publisher: United Nations
1995-09-18
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989; entry into force 2 September 1990. For the jurisprudence of the Convention, visit the site of CRC Committee. Myanmar accession: 15 July 1991.
Source/publisher: United Nations
1989-11-20
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Francais, Espanol, Russian, Arabic, Chinese
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