Security Council- Responsibility of Military Personnel towards Civilians, during Armed Conflict

"We want a society where people are more important than things, where children are precious; a world where people can be more human, caring and gentle." Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the meeting of the Eminent Persons Group on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, Tarrytown, New York, 9 May 1995.
It is a basic need of children to be protected when conflicts threaten, and such protection requires the fulfillment of their rights through the implementation of international human rights and humanitarian law. Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, United Nations, 1996. For more information on the above, visit:
http://www.un.org/rights/concerns.htm
http://www.un.org/rights/h_rights.htm

The Security Council express deepest concern at continued civilian suffering during conflict, condemns all violations of humanitarian law threatening non-combatants
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MUMA-7F34Q3?OpenDocument

Australia-ARMED CONFLICT, THE MILITARY AND THE ENVIRONMENT- (although a part of GA1, this topic is of high importance within the Security Council.)
“There are no ultimate winners in war - neither people, nations nor the planetary ecosystem. War is indiscriminate and can bring harm or destruction to life anywhere. Damaging national and global ecosystems also damages the people living within them.” http://www.acfonline.org.au/articles/news.asp?news_id=466&c=9158

Brazil- It is worth recalling – as stressed by the Secretary-General in his report on Africa – that stopping the flow of arms to areas of chronic instability is an essential ingredient of any strategy for lowering the levels of brutality against civilians and humanitarian workers.
http://www.un.int/brazil/speech/99d-hv-csnu-protecao-civil.htm
In recent years, the Security Council has increasingly directed its attention to the plight of civilians in situations of armed conflict, recognizing that this is an important dimension of its responsibility to maintain peace and security. One of the ways in which it has done so is by expressly incorporating measures aimed at enhancing the protection of civilians in the mandates of peacekeeping missions.
International humanitarian law binds all parties to an armed conflict. The principle that civilians must be spared from the effects of hostilities is articulated and developed in numerous clear and categorical prohibitions. Prohibitions that are all too frequently willfully violated. It is often in these situations of widespread attacks against the civilian population that peacekeeping forces are deployed to prevent further violations.
As long as the peacekeeping forces are not drawn into the fighting, they too are protected and should not be targeted. In its dialogue with warring parties the ICRC regularly recalls the protections to which civilians and peacekeepers are entitled. http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/6BNADG