Problem Of Child Soldiers
3. What Are Child Soldiers?
The problem of child soldiers nowadays has attracted public attention because we are coping with human laws and rights laws more often than we have in the past. Children comprise a substantial proportion of armed groups. It is generally agreed that the presence of children in armed conflicts is not tolerated in a civilized society.
The Geneva Conventions in 1949 were one of the first to give children rights and to bring laws to them. Yet the term “child soldier” was not mentioned in the Conventions. Only in the 1970s did the term appear for the first time. This has to do with the type of wars that we are fighting today. These days, children are commonly part of rebel groups, guerrilla fighters, global terrorist
The problem of child soldiers nowadays has attracted public attention because we are coping with human laws and rights laws more often than we have in the past. Children comprise a substantial proportion of armed groups. It is generally agreed that the presence of children in armed conflicts is not tolerated in a civilized society.
The Geneva Conventions in 1949 were one of the first to give children rights and to bring laws to them. Yet the term “child soldier” was not mentioned in the Conventions. Only in the 1970s did the term appear for the first time. This has to do with the type of wars that we are fighting today. These days, children are commonly part of rebel groups, guerrilla fighters, global terrorist