![]() ![]() Welcome the action plan to prevent recruitment and use of children by the PMF, and urge swift and full implementation of this plan, including measures to strengthen age verification and to adopt legislation and administrative measures to prevent the recruitment and use of children, as well as the prompt investigation of any allegation of recruitment and use of children.According to the SG’s January report on UNAMI ( S/2023/58), between September and December 2022, the Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) verified 42 grave violations, including incidents of killing and maiming, primarily by explosive remnants of war (ERW), the recruitment and use of one girl and two boys by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), one sexual violence-related violation by Da’esh, and one attack on a school by Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In March, the Government of Iraq signed an action plan with the UN to end and prevent recruitment and use of children by the PMF. In May, UNAMI’s mandate is up for renewal, per SCR 2631 (2022). Da’esh is listed in the annexes of the Secretary-General’s (SG) latest annual report ( S/2022/493) on children and armed conflict (CAAC) for all five “trigger” violations against children, and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) are listed for child recruitment and use.
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