The issue regarding child soldiers is one that is familiar to most persons‚ yet the progress in the process of addressing such problem moves at a very slow pace due to its increasing depth in the past twenty years. According to past reading‚ women and children were involved in many battles conducted during the time of the American colonization (Camacho‚ 2003‚ 5). However‚ it was a case in February‚ 1999 that truly opened the public’s eye towards the issue of child soldiers for it was regarding a
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The use of child soldiers is an unpardonable crime. Anybody with the authority to make this decision must have the highest integrity and morals‚ and using child soldiers simply goes against my and any respectable persons conscious. Their morals would simply forbid them from using child soldiers. The definition of child soldier according to https://www.dosomething.org is “a Child soldiers are any children under the age of 18 who are recruited by a state or non-state armed group and used as fighters
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serving as soldiers‚ what they do as soldiers‚ and how citizens are trying to put an end to it. The children of Uganda are being kidnapped from their families to become soldiers and sex slaves by the Lord’s Resistance Army. The paper will help to explain when‚ where‚ how‚ and why Joseph Kony is stealing children from their families in Uganda. It will also explore what the children do as they serve Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army (Amone-P’Olak‚ 2014). It will go in depth on routines of the child soldiers
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Many Child soldiers are being placed in the middle of a war and should be granted amnesty. These children are being forced to fight. The warlords are using alcohol and drugs to make it so the children don’t know what they’re doing and are forcing the children to fight. They become brainwashed when they are consuming the drugs and alcohol. On the other hand‚ the child soldiers are committing the same crime as child criminals and should have the same consequence as them. Both criminals are killing
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Child Soldiers * Violates Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 25: a) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family‚ including food‚ clothing‚ housing and medical care and necessary social services‚ and the right to security in the event of unemployment‚ sickness‚ disability‚ widowhood‚ old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. b) Motherhood and childhood are
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Since the 1990s‚ increasing attention has been drawn to child soldiering in Africa. While greater awareness is important in responding to the use of children as soldiers‚ popular images have too often sensationalized the issue‚ with counter-productive consequences. Ubiquitous media images of boys with guns as the epitome of child soldiering and girl sex slaves as ’victims’ of conflict obscure the fact that many other children and young people‚ both male and female‚ play a variety of different‚ and
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The military use of young children takes three distinct forms: children can take direct part in hostilities (child soldiers)‚ or they can be used in support roles such as porters‚ spies‚ messengers‚ look outs‚ and sexual slaves; or they can be used for political advantage either as human shields or in propaganda. Throughout history and in many cultures‚ children have been extensively involved in military campaigns even when such practices were supposedly against cultural morals. Since the 1970s
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The current situation of children used in armed conflicts is extremely serious. Nearly 300 000 children are engaged as soldiers in more than 30 countries worldwide. It is a fact that many of these states are located in Africa. Hence‚ it is particularly in interest of the Republic of Zimbabwe that this problem is solved. In 1998‚ the International Crime Court categorized the conscripting of children under the age of 15 into national armed forces‚ or the active using of the latter in hostilities‚ as
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according to human right watch. Child soldier refers to any person under the age of 18 placed in the face of war. This issue discusses the rights of children and how they shouldn’t be involved in death‚ murder or fighting‚ but instead‚ experience the innocence of being a child. Children are abducted from their homes and schools are forced to work as spies‚ cooks or guards. Girls are subjected to rape and sexual assault and given as wives to commanders. Children Soldiers obstruct the articles 5 the right
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Should Countries prosecute child soldiers for crimes committed during wartime? In over twenty countries around the world‚ children are direct participants in war. All through history and in many cultures‚ children are participants in military atrocities‚ even when such actions were against cultural morals. Dating back to the 70’s‚ several countries have held conventions to deter this widespread dilemma. The violence‚ torture‚ and abuse these children face are horrific. Many of the youths are less
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