At first, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Lake Chad Basin, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Philippines were named in the report along with India. Based on claims that armed groups were allegedly recruiting young boys in Jammu and Kashmir and detaining them as a result of their affiliation with such organisations, India was included in the list.

In the prior report, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praised the Indian government’s cooperation with his special envoy and expressed hope that India would soon be taken off the list of countries to be concerned about. India’s elimination is confirmed by the most recent report on children and armed conflict in 2023, which attributes it to the government’s proactive actions to protect children. Additionally, Guterres acknowledges a workshop that the United Nations took part in that was hosted by India in Jammu and Kashmir in November 2022.

India has worked closely with the UN over the past two years, according to Virginia Gamba, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. India’s commitment to prevention and the creation of long-lasting safeguards for children is demonstrated by this collaboration.

Disproportionate Effect on Children: According to Guterres’ yearly report, children continue to suffer disproportionately from armed conflict on a global scale. A whopping 27,180 grave violations were verified by the UN in 2022, including 24,300 violations that occurred in that year and an additional 2,880 violations that occurred earlier but were only discovered in 2022. 18,890 children were impacted by these infractions in 24 scenarios and 1 regional monitoring arrangement. The report emphasises the occurrence of serious offences such child abduction, detention, recruitment and usage, killing, and maiming.