A/HRC/12/49 page 7 Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines. In addition, commitments by the Government of Nepal to release children from Maoist cantonments as a matter of priority, as well as commitments by the Forces nationales de libération (FNL) in Burundi to immediately and unconditionally separate and release all children were also received. In fact, between April and May 2009, a total of 340 children were separated from FNL and have been reunited with their families and communities, marking the end of the demobilization phase of all children formerly associated with FNL. And in July 2009, the Government and the Unified Party of Nepal-Maoist declared that they will discharge the 2,973 children remaining in the cantonments to the United Nations for rehabilitation and reintegration. 19. Also in 2009, the Uganda People’s Defence Forces and local defence units were removed from the annexes of the Secretary-General’s report (A/63/785-S/2009/158) as a result of the full commitment by the Government of Uganda and concerted efforts toward implementing the provisions of its action plan. 20. The Special Representative, however, remains very concerned that grave violations continue to be committed against children by parties to conflict, in blatant violation of international law, and would like to bring to the attention of the Human Rights Council parties who were included in the annexes to the latest report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict (ibid., annexes I and II) for the recruitment and use of children and the commission of other grave violations against children. More must be done to systematize and activate the full range of options available to the international community to ensure more robust action against recalcitrant violators. There are, for example, 18 such persistent violators1 who have been explicitly named and listed by the Secretary-General for four years or more, and the lack of action against them undermines accountability initiatives. A successful deterrent to the recruitment and use of child soldiers and other grave violations against children will only be established when individuals are held accountable through the rule of law. B. Field visits by the Special Representative 21. Apart from the sustained engagement and pressure placed on parties to conflict by the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, United Nations human rights mechanisms and other relevant bodies of the United Nations and its partners, field visits by the Special Representative have brought high-level visibility to the situation and rights of children 1 Palipehutu-Forces nationales pour la libération (FNL) - Agathon Rwasa, Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC), Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR); Front nationaliste et integrationaliste (FNI), Mai-Mai groups in North and South Kivu, including Coalition des patriotes résistants congolais (PARECO), Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), Karenni Army (KA), Tatmadaw Kyi, Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M), Transitional Federal Government (TFG), Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), government-supported militias in Darfur, Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP), Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), New People’s Army (NPA), Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). With the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), its listing in the annexes is no longer applicable.