UN Chief Leaves Child Rights Violators Off ‘List of Shame’
Jo Becker | Advocacy Director, Children’s Rights Division | Human Rights Watch
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/07/12/un-chief-leaves-child-rights-violators-list-shame
In his new annual report on children and armed conflict, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reported that Israeli security forces killed 78 Palestinian children and injured 982 in 2021, more casualties caused by any other armed force or group in the 21 conflict countries covered in his review. Despite this, Guterres failed to include Israeli forces in his annual “list of shame” for violations against children in armed conflict.
For years, Guterres has employed a double standard by listing some parties on his “list of shame” while omitting others that have often committed far more violations. Israel has never appeared on the list, even though the UN has found its forces responsible for killing or injuring more than 7,000 Palestinian children since 2015. (...)