A/HRC/24/59 2. Sexual violence involving children 71. Protection partners caring for girls who had separated from the Séléka reported that a large number of victims of sexual violence committed by the Séléka are children, ranging from 2 to 17 years of age. In addition, findings from interviews conducted by the Joint MONUSCO/BINUCA Investigation Mission with Central African refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between 22 May and 5 June 2013, revealed that many reported cases of rape of women and girls had been committed by the Séléka. 3. Recruitment of children 72. During the period under review, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) assisted 149 children (134 boys and 15 girls) aged between 12 and 17 years who had been recruited by the Séléka. Fifty five of the children were personally handed over to UNICEF by the President of the National Transitional Council between 27 and 30 June. Access to military camps and barracks, including camp Béal, the largest in Bangui, and Camp de Roux, which also serves as the presidential office, is restricted and protection actors could not undertake systematic screening activities. 73. The mission witnessed the presence of many children among the Séléka in pick-up vehicles during patrols, at the Office central de répression contre le banditisme and the Section recherche et investigation in Bangui, as well as in Damara, Sibut, Mbaïki and Kaga-Bandoro. At the Office central de répression, the team observed the presence of five children, including two girls, among the guards; at the Section recherche et investigation, four children were sighted among the Séléka, and had visibly been instructed to claim to be adults. 4. Attacks on hospitals and schools 74. Hospitals have been looted, ransacked or occupied by the Séléka throughout the country since 24 March 2013, seriously affecting access to health, with particularly grave consequences for children and pregnant women. In Bangui, the maternity hospital of the gendarmerie was looted and destroyed on 25 March. The national laboratory, the only facility carrying out specific biomedical analysis, was also looted on 25 and 26 March. Hospitals across the country are thought to be functioning at 20 per cent of their usual capacity, and only with the assistance of international relief agencies. 75. Only very few private schools are currently open. Public schools remain closed, which affects more than 800,000 children from elementary to secondary school. Teachers and civil servants who sought refuge in Bangui at the outbreak of hostilities are unlikely to return to the provinces in the near future owing to the volatile security situation. G. Violations of property rights and economic, social and cultural rights 76. During and following the capture of Bangui, Séléka soldiers engaged in organized and systematic looting of hundreds of private homes and shops, such as in the town of Rafaï or in the Fouh neighbourhood of Bangui, where former regime officials reside. 77. Séléka soldiers also ransacked public buildings. The mission was informed that, of the cases reported, Séléka soldiers had looted on 31 March 2013 the premises of the gendarmerie, the police, the Customs Office and other administrative buildings in Berbérati. On 5 April, Séléka soldiers also looted the offices of the Public Prosecutor at the Court of First Instance of Bangui, taking away documents, computers and hard drives before setting fire to the archives. 15