The issue of child soldiers

For child soldiers

(b) For child combatants

(e) To put an immediate end to the recruitment and use of child soldiers and to extend full cooperation to relevant international organizations in order to ensure the demobilization of child soldiers, their return home and their rehabilitation

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) programmes build capacity in the protection of children and the elimination of the use of children as soldiers.

Homeless, deprived of education, uprooted, recruited as child soldiers, millions of them were subjected to every form of exploitation.

D. Other forms of sale This remaining category covers abductions, disappearances and kidnappings, on the one hand, and child soldiers, on the other hand.

And I remember I met a lot of child soldiers ex combatants, as they like to be called.

A hallmark of the Sierra Leone conflict was the widespread abduction and use of children as soldiers, especially by the rebel group.

(h) The violations of the rights of the child, including the recruitment and use of children as soldiers and the subjection of children to forced labour, in contravention of human rights and international law

And she rescued over 150 child soldiers.

And the UN has condemned militant groups which now form the majority of fighters in Syria for murder, kidnap, torture, assault, corruption, and reliance on child soldiers.

(g) To put an immediate end to the use of child soldiers, which is in contravention of international human rights standards, and to demobilize them

The key groups would include professional soldiers who have fought on the side of non State actors rebel or mercenary soldiers and child soldiers.

Can you pick out the two US Army soldiers in this photograph?

There is a continuing need for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, as well as for the disbanding of illegal armed groups and for putting an end to the recruitment of child soldiers.

The Committee expresses its serious concern about allegations of continued abduction and military recruitment of child soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (art. 16).

Special attention should be given to the problem of the reintegration of child soldiers.

Then one of the soldiers fired into the group of children.

Sometimes the families of child soldiers died in the war.

Violations affect especially children who are victims of war, street children, child soldiers, minors in prison and children who are AIDS orphans.

The current estimated number of child soldiers in Liberia is 21,000.

Demobilization and reintegration, including former child soldiers, were under way.

At the same time States had a responsibility to do everything possible to protect children in situations of armed conflict and to prohibit their use as soldiers.

In some cases such as in Liberia and Somalia, where demobilization of children has been claimed, in practice many children are still used as soldiers.

(i) To prevent the recruitment of children as soldiers and combatants, consistent with the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol thereto on the involvement of children in armed conflict

But condemning child soldiers won't make them go away.

We have like 40 kids, ex child soldiers mixed with anybody that we feel like we want to support.

(k) To continue efforts to implement the commitment made to the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict not to recruit children under the age of eighteen as soldiers

Some 8,500 former child soldiers, war affected children and young people enrolled in reintegration programmes in Afghanistan.

Special attention should be paid to children affected by armed conflict, including child soldiers.

Hundreds of thousands of child soldiers are currently serving in armed forces throughout the world.

Child abductions, the recruitment and use of child soldiers, and the denial of access to vital services have a profound impact on children.

(r) To make further efforts to implement the commitment made to the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict not to recruit children under the age of 18 as soldiers

The high number of children involved in the conflict is not surprising because child soldiers were perceived as cheap and expendable.

Moreover, in August 2004, Japan had ratified the Optional Protocol to the CRC on children's participation in armed conflicts.

Okay, so I take the two children as slaves.

Deeply concerned at the reports of the problem of unaccompanied minors and the use of children as soldiers by all parties despite repeated calls from the international community to put an end to this practice,

Under the second phase, which began in December 2004 and is still ongoing, some 618 child soldiers were demobilized.

Around 8,000 child soldiers are expected to participate in the programme, according to UNICEF.

It was estimated that at least three hundred thousand child soldiers were participating in armed conflicts all over the world.

(i) To prevent the recruitment of children as soldiers and combatants, consistent with the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict

Reports also indicate a widespread and forced use of drugs by child soldiers and children associated with the fighting forces.

Most of the child soldiers were used as porters, cooks and scouts.

(i) To continue with and to step up its efforts to put a stop to the recruitment of child soldiers