Report on the Advocacy Mission to assess the situation of children in South Sudan recruit them. The communities are reluctant to report for fear of reprisal and at times also feel compelled to support the groups that are recruiting the children. The children at times join the militia due to boredom and idleness as they don’t attend schools and some may have no caregivers to guide them. 15. These have been done despite the commitment made to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Children and Armed Conflict on Children in Armed Conflict in June 2014 by the Government of South Sudan and associated forces and also the commitment made in Addis Ababa to desist from mobilizing child soldiers, and to demobilize those already affected. 16. The Committee, however, appreciates the fact that a Work Plan has recently been endorsed for the implementation of the recommitment agreement to end grave violations of children’s rights in South Sudan. The objective of the Work Plan, which was endorsed on 26 August 2014, is to end grave violations of children’s rights in South Sudan in particular to end recruitment and use of children by armed forces, killing and maiming of children, sexual violence and the use of schools for military purposes by end of July 2015. The Committee appreciates the Government of South Sudan, the Child Protection Unit in SPLA and Child Protection Unit in the UNMISS to come up 11