A/HRC/22/37 of the casualties were attributed to PGFs, including international military forces. The remaining 15 per cent could not be attributed to any party in the conflict owing to the nature of the incidents, such as crossfire. It is important to note that casualties attributed to AGEs increased by 15 per cent, while those attributed to PGFs decreased by 16 per cent in 2012. In 2012, nearly 200 children were killed and injured by detonations of unexploded ordnances and explosive remnants of war, mostly during the seasonal rains period. Children also lost lives and limbs through direct contact with unexploded ordnances and explosive remnants of war. 28. Targeting of children and schools is a direct violation of international humanitarian law and all parties to the conflict have an obligation to cease any such activities. Yet, AGEs continued to launch attacks on schools, especially targeting girls’ school and their staff. The Country Task Force received reports on 102 incidents of attacks against schools and staff. Only 25 incidents, however, were verifiable due to concerns of insecurity and lack of resources. On 14 April, AGEs forcibly closed all schools in Andar and Dih Yak districts of Ghazni province. Hospitals, health clinics and health staff were also affected. 29. UNAMA/OHCHR received reports that AGEs were increasing recruitment and use of children for conflict-related activities, especially in the north-eastern region. ANSF reported that they had rescued several children who were reportedly being trained as suicide bombers. Of a total of 40 reported incidents of child recruitment received during the year, 118 boys had been arrested for allegedly helping an armed group, following recruitment into their ranks. ANSF, particularly ANP and ALP, also recruited boys to perform policing duties. In December, the Ministry of Interior’s Director of Human Rights and Gender offered UNAMA unimpeded access to monitor their recruitment centres throughout Afghanistan. This will be one means to measure the rigorousness of training given to ANP recruits on the prohibition of child recruitment and vetting of ANP recruits. III. Protection from arbitrary detention and respect for fair trial rights 30. The Afghan prison population has been growing, putting a strain on the already overcrowded system that was designed to hold 10,000 prisoners at any given time. October 2012 figures from the Ministry of Interior’s Central Prison Directorate reveal that the Directorate is housing 24,027 sentenced prisoners and detainees. In addition, the Ministry of Justice is housing 976 juvenile detainees and prisoners in Juvenile Rehabilitation Centres in Afghanistan as of 20 October 2012. These statistics do not include the number of persons detained by the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and ANP, neither of which keeps regular public statistics of their detainee populations. These numbers continued to increase with the intensification of the conflict and security operations that result in arrests of persons on suspicion of national security crimes. Widespread arbitrary detention has long been a consequence of this situation, with lengthy pretrial detention of suspects for three months or longer without charge or opportunity to be brought before a judge. In some cases, suspects may be held by the arresting authority for over three months without ever seeing a prosecutor, knowing the charges against them or having the opportunity to go on trial. 31. Access to conflict-related detainees is often limited for legal aid lawyers, defence counsel and local human rights organizations, raising fair trial concerns. There is a serious shortage of defence lawyers compared to the number of detainees requiring legal representation. Although Afghan law gives detainees the right to access to defence counsel at the time of arrest, UNAMA/OHCHR found that NDS almost never allowed counsels to visit clients until after completion of the initial investigation. 9