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Girls Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups: Lessons Learnt and Good Practices on Prevention, Recruitment and Use, Release and Reintegration. Last updated 22 December 2021. Thousands of boys and girls are used as soldiers, cooks, spies and more in armed conflicts around the world.
- Five things you need to know about children and armed ...
Children affected by armed conflict must at all times be...
- Five things you need to know about children and armed ...
Children in the military, including state armed forces, non-state armed groups, and other military organizations, may be trained for combat, assigned to support roles, such as cooks, porters/couriers, or messengers, or used for tactical advantage such as for human shields, or for political advantage in propaganda.
6 de fev. de 2023 · Click to read the stories of children affected by armed conflict. Tens of thousands of boys and girls are recruited and used as child soldiers by armed forces and armed groups in...
- Optional Protocol on The Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
- The Optional Protocol Is A Commitment That
- Prohibition Under International Law
- We Are “Children, Not Soldiers”
In 2000, the UN General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflictto protect children from recruitment and use in hostilities.
States will not recruit children under the age of 18 to send them to the battlefield.States will not conscript soldiers below the age of 18.States should take all possible measures to prevent such recruitment –including legislation to prohibit and criminalize the recruitment of children under 18 and involve them in hostilities.States will demobilize anyone under 18 conscripted or used in hostilities and will provide physical, psychological recovery services and help their social reintegration.Human rights law declares 18 as the minimum legal age for recruitment and use of children in hostilities. Recruiting and using children under the age of 15 as soldiers is prohibited under international humanitarian law – treaty and custom – and is defined as a war crime by the International Criminal Court. Parties to conflict that recruit and use c...
In 2014, with UNICEF, the Special Representative launched the campaign “Children, Not Soldiers”to bring about a global consensus that child soldiers should not be used in conflict. The campaign was designed to generate momentum, political will and international support to turn the page once and for all on the recruitment of children by national sec...
War & Law. Protected persons. Children are especially vulnerable in armed conflicts. Despite the protection provided by law, they continue to be recruited by armed forces and armed groups. They are often separated from their families, driven from their homes, killed, maimed, sexually abused or exploited in other ways. Rural Damascus.
10 June 2020. Revised and updated version! Children associated with armed forces or groups often see, suffer and perpetrate atrocities. Both the brochure and the ICRC's work with children affected by conflict and violence emphasize children's vulnerability and resilience.
