Doha: Qatar has stressed that wars and armed conflicts have deprived the world’s children of their rights established by the international community through international agreements and conventions.
In an address to the 24th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Nour Ibrahim Al Sada, Second Secretary at Qatar’s Permanent delegation to the UN Office, said rights of Palestinian children are being violated and the perpetrators go unpunished.
Al Sada was speaking during an interactive dialogue with the special representative of the UN secretary-general on children and armed conflicts.
Al Sada highlighted suffering of children in Syria due to the crimes they are daily exposed to and the deprivation of their fundamental rights such as the right to education, healthcare and safe environment.
She also expressed Qatar’s condemnation of massacre in East Ghouta, near Damascus, of which the majority of the victims were women and children.
She urged the countries that have not yet acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts, to join the protocol. QNA
