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Cac S Ac51 2009 4
51/2009/4
Security Council Distr.: General
28 October 2009
Original: English
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force on monitoring and reporting, and to ensure the safety and security of
monitors, witnesses and victims;
(iii) To release immediately all abducted children, ensure their return to their
families and communities and take all necessary measures to put an end to and
prevent abduction;
(iv) To cease the arrest of children for desertion, if any, and to ensure their
swift release;
(v) To take measures to prevent all violations committed against children,
including sexual and gender-based violence, and to take specific measures so
that perpetrators are held accountable;
(vi) To facilitate access for provision of humanitarian assistance;
(vii) To take measures to eradicate anti-personnel landmines not used in
accordance with applicable international law and to remove unexploded
ordnance immediately after the cessation of hostilities, in order to avoid the
killing and maiming of children as a result of their use.
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To the Secretary-General
(d) Welcoming the meeting that took place on 20 August between the
country task force on monitoring and reporting and the High-level Committee for
the Prevention of Military Recruitment of Underage Children and the promise of a
follow-up meeting to further discuss the integration of the recommendations of the
Working Group into a time-bound action plan and to support their implementation;
(e) Welcoming his recommendation to the country task force on monitoring
and reporting to strengthen its monitoring and reporting capacity through increased
staffing and wider geographical coverage with a view to improving its work,
including prevention, protection, release and reintegration support activities;
(f) Inviting him to continue strengthening the country task force on
monitoring and reporting, in accordance with Security Council resolutions 1612
(2005) and 1882 (2009), to establish a systematic protection dialogue with all
parties to the conflict with the goal of creating concrete time-bound action plans to
halt recruitment and use of child soldiers, killing and maiming of children and rape
and other forms of sexual violence against children in contravention of applicable
international law, and to address other violations and abuses as appropriate;
(g) Also inviting him to consider the strengthening of the efforts of the
United Nations to provide adequate health care and psychosocial care to child
victims, including child victims of sexual violence;
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