Report on the Advocacy Mission to assess the situation of children in South Sudan Best Interest Determinant (BID) Panel to discuss Internally Displaced Children’s issues. Grave Child Rights Violations: 13. The delegation was also informed that since the eruption of conflict in December 2013 to end of June, the UN received more reports of grave child rights violations in armed conflict than all of 2013 combined. Grave child rights violations continue to be analyzed, documented and verified. The violations monitored include killing, recruitment and use of children by armed forces and groups, sexual violence, attacks on schools and hospitals, and denial of humanitarian access, including access to health. Of mounting concern for the Committee is the escalating recruitment of children into forces associated with the armed conflict. Children associated with armed forces are one of the main protection issues that have to be addressed on a basis of absolute urgency. Unverified reports of an upsurge in the recruitment of children by armed groups have been received by the delegation. 14. As it is reflected in recent reports, the delegation has also observed the existence of visible involvement of children in the conflict. This includes girls in military uniform, reflecting the rapidly changing dynamic of the conflict on the protection of children. Children in uniform are seen entering the camps while some groups openly 10