Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Peacebuilding, Forced Marriage, Hitler Youth
6 Nov 2016
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The definition includes girls recruited for sexual purposes and forced marriage . Any person under the age of 18 years : armed force . Military institution of a state with a legal basis and supporting institutional infrastructure i. e. canadian forces, updf, us army: armed group . The armed forces of a party to the conflict consist of all organized armed forces, groups and units which are under a command responsible to that party for the conduct of its subordinates. Child soldiers and international law: rome statute- 1998. Summons member states to prohibit use of child soldiers: crc optional protocol-2000. Led an army in 340 bc at age 16: soviet union. Komsomol, founded in 1918: nazi germany. Hitlerjugend (hitler youth), youth fighters between 1933-1944: there are over 300,000 child soldiers today in armed forces and armed groups around the world, including columbia, sri lanka, car, drc, chad, ect. Isis currently using nazi methods to train child soldiers.
