"WHY CHILDREN AS ZONE OF PEACE"

Taking about the present context of Nepalese children they are in herculean condition because they have been affected by the violence resulting from eight years of armed conflict in our country. Hundreds of children have been killed or married and many more children have been traumatized and left emotionally scared. Children have been orphaned or displaced from their villages and are forced to seek the security of bigger cities, often working in harsh conditions. Many have been arrested and detained illegally alongside adults. Unfortunately, the effects of armed conflict on children cannot be clearly predicted.

Children as by birth, have right to survival, protection, development and participation and they also have the right to childhood and the right to live in a protective, secure and stable environment to grow. They have the equal rights to be helped and recovered from conflict, relief packages on a priority basis. Likewise, they have the right to express their views even in conflict. In order to protect these rights, many different laws are made. Despite of these laws, as they are not implemented well rights of children have been violated during armed conflict.

So contemporarily the best solution for the problem is to magnify and strengthen the efforts to declare children as a zone of peace and to urge adults and their institutions include the state and non-state parties in a strong united, unbiased and effective manner to fulfill their obligations towards children.

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