The Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Madrid Guiding Principles on stemming the flow of foreign terrorist fighters (S/2015/939) and the 2018 Addendum to the 2015 Guiding Principles on Foreign Terrorist Fighters (S/2018/1177) Paris Commitments and Paris Principles and Guidelines on Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (2007) The Paris Commitments to protect children from unlawful recruitment, use by armed forces or armed groups and the Principles and Guidelines on Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups (2007) (the Paris Principles) were adopted at the international conference “Free children from war” in Paris, February 2007. Together, they consolidate global humanitarian knowledge and experience in working to prevent recruitment, protect children, support their release from armed forces or armed groups and reintegrate them into civilian life. Available at www.unicef.org/emerg/files/ ParisPrinciples310107English.pdf The Madrid Guiding Principles and its Addendum provide guidance on protecting and promoting the rights of the child in several contexts, including legal frameworks and procedures, investigations, watch lists and databases, biometric identification and prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration approaches. Aim of the Handbook 12. The Handbook aims to assist States in taking a human rights-based approach, with a special focus on child rights, to several issues concerning children affected by the foreign fighter phenomenon. In particular, the Handbook aims to assist practitioners in finding more effective and sustainable solutions to the challenges such children face by ensuring respect for international normative standards. The Handbook aims to do so by summarizing applicable international human rights law, especially child rights standards, and humanitarian law and explaining how applying such law practically also supports Member States to improve security and long-term recovery of children. The Handbook further includes recommendations for approaches that represent good practice, while introducing some national practices and other relevant publications and materials. 15.