A/HRC/3/2 page 149 249 The Commission witnessed on various occasions that children were particularly traumatised by the armed conflict. For example, in Ghobeiri, it met with a family whose one of the children, who were injured during the bombing, expressed obvious post traumatic disorder. In Aita ech Chaab, the Commission noted the same among children playing together. 250 Save the Children was planning the establishment of a Classroom-Based Psychosocial Program, a professionally designed program to help children and youth deal with traumatic experience. Save the Children. Alliance Lebanon Emergency Response Team (ALERT), 23 September 2006. 251 Terre Des Hommes (TDH) in collaboration with UNICEF worked on a mental health and psychosocial support program in psychosocial centers, in schools, and municipality in Alklayleh, Zebkin, Jbal Albottom, Srifa, Naqoura, and Deir Kanoun Naher. WHO. Health Cluster Bulletin, No. 7, 13 October 2006. 252 Samidoun notably organized theatrical performance for children living in the Beirut suburb. http://www.samidoun.org/?q=node/941 (retrieved on 8 November 2006). 253 Under its Programme to Support and Rebuild Lebanon, the UAE delivered 166 entirely renovated schools (108 public and 58 private) to the Ministry of Education on 18 October 2006. They were still working on the rebuilding of 34 public and 5 private schools for 18 November and another 9 by 18 December 2006. 254 IRIN. “Lebanon: New school year gets underway with few hitches”, 24 October 2006. 255 Organizations such as Save the Children worked with teachers and local organizations to promote an environment that promotes inclusiveness and supports the mental, emotional and physical well-being of the young. 256 See Lebanon marine and coastal oil pollution international assistance action plan, prepared by the experts working group for Lebanon, 25 August 2006 http://www.unep.org/PDF/lebanon/LebanonOilSpill_ActionPlan20060825.pdf (retrieved on 8 November 2006). The Commission received reliable information from the Ministry of Environment, as well as from experts in the Lebanese Council for Scientific Research, that large quantities of sunken oil had affected algae and plankton that nourish migratory fish banks along the Lebanese coast. Variations in the quantity of fish and in the variety of fish species will also affect migratory birds. Furthermore, as indicated by the Director of the Lebanese National Centre of Marine Sciences, certain turtle species, typical to the Lebanese waters, were adversely affected and their survival may be endangered. Moreover, a large percentage of the oil spilled had emulsified and solidified along the Lebanese shore, thus polluting sand, rock and stone and, therefore, constituting a permanent threat to the ecosystem. 257 Ministry of Environment Ministerial Brief on the Oil Spill Crisis [no date indicated].

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