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Ecuador is said to be concerned about the phenomenon of children recruited for armed conflict around the world during a debate in the Security Council in New York, announced today the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Protecting Children Today, Preventing Conflicts of Tomorrow", the meeting attended by more than 97 states badyzed issues related to the protection of children recruited in armed conflict.
participation of the representative of the Ecuador Mission to the United Nations in New York, Helen Yánez Loza.
In her speech, she said that despite the official release of more than 10,000 miners related to armed groups in 2017, 56 militia and seven state forces continued to recruit and use children in the conflicts around the world.
According to the letter, the Ambbadador recalled that Ecuador recognizes in its Constitution that children constitute a "priority attention group" and emphasizes as State responsibility protection and attention against all types of violence, abuse and badual exploitation of which children may be victims.
Possible solutions were also discussed and the vulnerability of the minor victims and the innumerable abuses to which they are exposed was evaluated
. These events result in violation of their rights depriving them of the opportunity to have Ecuador shares the principles in favor of protecting children from the worst effects of war and supports the The application of the zero tolerance policy in this respect, raised by Norway. EFE
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