UN Security Council
2001

activities by peacekeeping and peace-building support operations on the situation of children in armed conflict; 3 S/RES/1379 (2001) 11. Requests the agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations to: (a) Coordinate their support and assistance to parties to armed conflict in fulfilling their obligations and commitments to children; (b) Take account of ways of reducing child recruitment that is contrary to accepted international standards when formulating development assistance programmes; (c) Devote particular attention and adequate resources to the rehabilitation of children affected by armed conflict, particularly their counselling, education and appropriate vocational opportunities, as a preventive measure and as a means of reintegrating them into society; (d) Ensure that the special needs and particular vulnerabilities of girls affected by armed conflict, including those heading households, orphaned, sexually exploited and used as combatants, are duly taken into account in the design of development assistance programmes, and that adequate resources are allocated to such programmes; (e) Integrate HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention, care and support into emergency, humanitarian, and post-conflict programmes; (f) Support the development of local capacity to address post-conflict child