World Report 2011 - Human Rights Watch

WORLD REPORT 2011its Violation, and for Other Purposes, Republic Act No. 7610, 1992- prohibits use of suchfacilities for military operations.4United Nations Security Council, “Presidential Statement on Children and ArmedConflict”, UN Doc. S/PRST/2009/9, April 29, 2009.5“Afghanistan: Over 20 Schools Attacked on Election Day,” IRIN News, August 24, 2009,http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85831 (accessed October 8, 2009).6UK Ministry of Defence, Manual of the Law of Armed Conflict (Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress, 2004).7 Ibid.,16.16.1, 16.29(c), pp. 428-29, n. 122.8 Tribunal Militaire de Garnison de l’Ituri, Jugement Contre Kahwa Panga Mandro, RPANo. 039/2006, RMP No. 227/ PEN/2006 (August 2, 2006).9Cour Militaire de la Province Orientale, Arrêt Contre Kahwa Panga Mandro, RPA No.023/2007, RMP 227/PEN/2006 (July 28, 2007).10 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, Report of the Truth andReconciliation Commission of South Africa (1998), vol. I, p. 34, vol. II, pp. 154, 150, 380,387, 431, 436, and 661-662, vol. III, pp. 59-60, 236, 311, 370, 408, and 617; vol. IV, p.266; and vol. V, pp. 255 and 355.11 United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), UN Committee on theRights of the Child: Concluding Observations, Burundi, CRC/C/15/Add.133 (October 16,2000), paras. 64-65; CRC, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: ConcludingObservations, Ethiopia, CRC/C/ETH/CO/3 (November 1, 2006), paras. 27-28; CRC, UNCommittee on the Rights of the Child: Concluding Observations, Israel,CRC/C/15/Add.195 (October 9, 2002), para. 52; CRC, Consideration of Reports Submittedby States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention: Convention on the Rights of theChild: 2nd and 3rd Periodic Reports of States Parties Due in 2005: Republic of Moldova,CRC/C/MDA/3 (July 10, 2008), paras. 423 and 435.12The Global Coalition for Protecting Education from Attack (GCPEA) includes the Councilfor Assisting Refugee Academics, Education Above All, Education International, HumanRights Watch, Save the Children International, UNESCO, and UNICEF, the UN Children’sFund. The coalition is dedicated to raising awareness about the scope of attacks on educationand their consequences, and mobilizing a more effective international response.50