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UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict visit to Afghanistan (message from Ms. Margaret Novicki)

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By Lolag
Today we received this info from LW:

The UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomarawamy, will visit Afghanistan from 28 June to 3 July to inaugurate the monitoring and reporting system introduced by Security Council resolution 1612 in 2005 and to ascertain the impact of the conflict on children.
Please find, and disseminate to your local media, a press release on the visit.

Also, www.un.org/childrenconflict>for more background, please check the CAAC website and the following documents.

- Annual report including Afghanistan: http://
daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N07/656/04/PDF/N0765604.pdf?OpenElement

- Webpage on Afghanistan

- Bio of the SRSG

- Res 1612&Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism

- SC working Group on CAAC

Thank you and best regards,

Margaret Novicki
Chief, Communications Campaign Service
Department of Public Information
United Nations, New York
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