The Human Rights Council, Children in Armed Conflict

Position of Venezuela

The Convention on the Rights of the Child states that every child has a right to grow up in peace, with a wide range of protections against violence, discrimination and exploitation. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, like most other societies suffers its children being affected by the conflicts of the adult world. Our Government believes in giving foremost preference to the protection of children in all communities and upholding and securing their rights, the children being the key to a peaceful future.

Our country attributes this condition of children, all over the world, to the growing levels of capitalism and terrorism, chiefly perpetrated by countries in powerful positions. There is a clear example which enunciates the horrific conditions the children grow in, by way of our neighboring country Colombia. Many world reports have now proven that the war in Colombia is a war on children. Young people have been lured and forced into the ranks of combatants, used as informants, marked as targets and driven from their homes. In the context of the Colombian armed conflict, children and youth are constant victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Our country would thus, like to give full support to all the initiatives taken by the United Nations in this regard which have a vision to promote the rights of children, especially those who have suffered and continue suffering the brunt of armed conflicts. For a fact, the Republic of Venezuela has been providing its support in UNICEF’s vaccination program to provide tolerance and shall continue doing the same.




Topic: Internal conflict and protection of human rights with special reference to Nepal
and Sri Lanka

Instability in a Government perpetrates human rights violation in the country. Our nation strongly believes that peaceful, diplomatic solutions should be found to have an effective impact on governments who are in direct or indirect violation of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and of international agreements and whose political situation and/or actions violate the international order. We support the idea of peaceful conflict resolution.

The most prominent example has been the loss of countless lives as the Sri Lankan forces fight with the Tamil tigers. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has maintained cordial relations with the countries in the Indian Sub continent and condemns any kind of activities which undermine human values enshrined in the UN Charter. Our country is trying to build strong relations with Sri Lanka and in this regard had also expressed its solidarity with the tsunami affected people of their country and donated towards its Relief Fund. Our country would further like to support any operation of the UN to end the mass killing and restore human rights in the country.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela established diplomatic relations with Nepal on April 28th 1987 and has maintained the relations thus. Our country now shows serious concerns about the disintegration of formal democracy in Nepal which is in turn affecting the rights of the citizens. Our country is ready to provide any kind of assistance in UN’s mission in Nepal to ensure the citizen rights are in place