Every year, the United Nations publishes a “List of Shame” in which it identifies all organizations which use children as soldiers or which commit atrocities against women or children. The words “Children” and “war” should never be used in the same sentence.

Here is the current list:

The List of Shame

List of parties that recruit or use children, kill or maim children, and/or commit rape and other forms of sexual violence against children in situations of armed conflict on the agenda of the Security Council:

Parties in Afghanistan

1.              Afghan National Police*

2.              Haqqani network*†

3.              Hezb-i-Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar* †

4.              Jamat Sunat al-Dawa Salafia*

5.              Latif Mansur Network*

6.              Taliban forces*†

7.              Tora Bora front*

 

Parties in the Central African Republic

1.              Armée populaire pour la restauration de la République et de la démocratie (APRD)*

2.              Convention des patriotes pour la justice et la paix (CPJP)*

3.              Forces démocratiques populaires de Centrafrique (FDPC)*

4.              Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)* †‡

5.              Mouvement des libérateurs centrafricains pour la justice (MLCJ)*

6.              Self-defence militias supported by the Government of Central African Republic*

7.              Union des forces démocratiques pour le rassemblement (UFDR)*

 

Parties in Chad

1.              Chadian National Army, including newly integrated elements*

2.              Justice and Equality Movement *

 

Parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

1.              Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC), including recently integrated elements from various armed groups including the Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP), formerly led by Laurent Nkunda as well as elements currently led by Bosco Ntaganda*‡

2.              Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR)*‡

3.              Forces de résistance patriotique en Ituri/Front Populaire pour la Justice au Congo (FRPI/FPJC)* ‡

4.              Front nationaliste et integrationaliste (FNI)*‡

5.              Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)*‡

6.              Mai-Mai groups in North and South Kivu, including PARECO*‡

 

Parties in Iraq

1.              Al-Qaida in Iraq, including its armed youth wing, the “Birds of Paradise”*†

2.              Islamic State of Iraq†

 

Parties in Myanmar

1.              Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA)*

2.              Kachin Independence Army (KIA)*

3.              Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)*: this party has sought to conclude an action plan with the United Nations in line with Security Council resolutions 1539 (2004) and 1612 (2005), but the United Nations has been prevented from doing so by the Government of Myanmar.

4.              Karen National Union-Karen National Liberation Army Peace Council*

5.              Karenni Army (KA)*: this party has sought to conclude an action plan with the United Nations in line with Security Council resolutions 1539 (2004) and 1612 (2005), but the United Nations has been prevented from doing so by the Government of Myanmar.

6.              Shan State Army-South (SSA-S)*

7.              Tatmadaw Kyi, including integrated border guard forces*

8.              United Wa State Army (UWSA)*

 

Parties in Nepal

Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M)*

 

Parties in Somalia

1.              Al-Shabaab, including newly merged Hizbul Islam*†

2.              Transitional Federal Government (TFG)*†

 

Parties in the Sudan

Parties in southern Sudan

1.              Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)*† ‡

2.              Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA)*

 

Parties in Darfur

1.              Chadian armed opposition groups*

2.              Police forces, including the Central Reserve Police and Border Intelligence Forces*

3.              Popular Defence Forces*

4.              Pro-government militias*

5.              Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)*

6.              Signatory parties to the Darfur Peace Agreement:

(a)   Justice and Equality Movement (Peace Wing)*

(b)  Movement of Popular Force for Rights and Democracy*

(c)   Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Free Will*

(d)  Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Minni Minnawi*

(e)   Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/ Mother Wing (Abu Gasim)*

(f)   Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Peace Wing*

7.              Non-signatory parties to the Darfur Peace Agreement:

(a)   Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)*

(b)  Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Abdul Wahid*

(c)   Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Historical Leadership*

(d)  Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)/Unity*

 

List of parties that recruit or use children, kill or maim children, and/or commit rape and other forms of sexual violence against children in situations of armed conflict not on the agenda of the Security Council, or in other situations of concern:

 

Parties in Colombia

1.              Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN)*

2.              Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP)*

 

Parties in the Philippines

1.              Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)*

2.              Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)*

3.              New People’s Army (NPA)*

 

Parties in Sri Lanka

1.              Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) (Iniya Barrathi faction)*

 

Parties in Uganda

Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)

 

Parties in Yemen

Al-Houthi rebels*

Pro-government tribal militia*