Committee    : United Nations Children's Emergency Fund
Agenda      : Protection Of Children in Emergencies and Armed Conflict With Special Emphasis on The Special Protection Under International Humanitarian Law
Country      : Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Delegate      : Anonymous
Human Rights and Children's Rights-Based Child  Protection Approach During Armed Conflict
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of the man are threatened - John F. Kennedy
BACKGROUND
According to UNICEF estimate, one in every nine children, or over 250 million children globally, living in conflict countries. Conflicts in different regions of the world have exploited and negatively impacted children. Children have been involved in active involvement since World War II, when they were enlisted in the regular military services. The active engagement of youngsters in conflicts has piqued the world community's interest. Every day, we hear of atrocities perpetrated on the battlefield. Women and children were tortured and murdered so brutally that some were freed from their houses, lost their jobs, lost their homes, women were raped, and young men were compelled to bear guns. So cruel are the actions carried out in the name of war, which of course violate human rights even though various provisions of international humanitarian law have been established and develop the principle of special protection for children in times of armed conflict.
STANCE AND STRATEGY OF STATE
The kingdom of Saudi Arabian royal delegation felt that the psychological impact of child recruitment in armed conflict was very dangerous and detrimental to the interests of the child. As a result, the recruited children are then shaped into individuals who are not in accordance with their identity. Â They are taught war tactics and instilled a sense of hostility and hatred, in their minds a value of hostility is embedded and they only think how to kill and defend themselves so as not to become victims of murder, from a human rights perspective, recruiting children as soldiers is an act that violates children's human rights as an independent person.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabian royal assembly also saw and took important steps in the legal protection that children can receive in situations of armed conflict, as well as arrangements based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and also agreed with the existence of child protection in accordance with international humanitarian law and the convention on the rights of being recruited into the armed forces in accordance with the efforts by the ICRC
