A/HRC/34/41 madrassa to conduct a suicide attack. The child was killed when he tried on the suicide vest in his house. 31. The country task force on monitoring and reporting documented nine incidents of abduction, involving at least 23 children. Anti-government elements perpetrated six of those abductions, of which the task force attributed five to the Taliban. The Afghan National Defence and Security Forces perpetrated the remaining incident, on 19 September 2016, in the Alishing district of Laghman Province, when seven children between 7 and 16 years of age and a logistics officer from Shamsakhail School were abducted in response to the abduction of an Afghan National Army soldier by the Taliban. Community elders intervened and negotiated the release of all the abductees. 32. The country task force on monitoring and reporting verified three incidents of rape and sexual violence against four boys and one girl, of which two were perpetrated by the local police and one by the Taliban. 33. Anti-government elements continued to deny humanitarian access to areas under their control. The country task force on monitoring and reporting verified 70 such incidents, which represents a 19 per cent decrease compared with 2015, when 86 such incidents were verified. Incidents included abduction, intimidation, killing and injury of humanitarian staff (mostly deminers), denial of access to providers of vaccines and damage to facilities run by humanitarian organizations. The task force attributed 94 per cent of those incidents to antigovernment elements. 34. On 18 April, UNAMA/OHCHR, in conjunction with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), released Education and Healthcare at Risk: Key Trends and Incidents Affecting Children’s Access to Healthcare and Education in Afghanistan. 5 The report documents how, between January 2013 and December 2015, conflict-related violence, combined with threats and intimidation by all parties to the conflict, harmed health and education personnel, reduced the availability of health care and limited children’s access to essential health services and education. 35. The country task force on monitoring and reporting noted significant progress from the Ministry of the Interior with regard to the expansion of child protection units in Afghan National Police recruitment centres. Between January and November 2016, the Afghan National Police inaugurated 12 additional child protection units, bringing the total number of such units in the country to 17. 36. On 18 June 2016, the Ministry of the Interior published a directive prohibiting the exposure in the media of children arrested on national security charges. On 4 June and 4 July respectively, the Ministry of Education issued two directives to all security-related ministries highlighting the commitment of Afghanistan to the Safe Schools Declaration and calling on the security forces to stop using schools for military purposes. On 2 July, the National Directorate for Security issued a directive prohibiting children from being held in its detention facilities and from being transferred to adult prisons. 37. On 3 September 2016, in coordination with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the Herat Department of Information and Culture, UNAMA hosted a film festival on the effects of armed conflict on children. Thirty-two entries were submitted, including by women and members of disabled communities in Herat and Badghis provinces. A 16-year-old female student from Herat Province directed and produced the winning film. 5 8 See https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/education_and_healthcare_at_risk.pdf.