AFRS 2465 Lecture Notes - 3 Women, Compulsory Sterilization, International Criminal Court
5 Jun 2014
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Women and children as armed combatants and victims. It includes girls recruited for sexual purposed and forced marriages. It does not, therefore, only refer to a child who is carrying or has carried arms. 300,000 children under the age of 18 are currently participating in armed. Child soldiers are recruited in more than 40 different countries on nearly. 1. 5 million children dead; 4 million disabled or maimed in conflicts. While most child soldiers are in their teens, some are as young as 7 years. Governments also recruited, and in some cases used in hostilities, Governments using children as spies, informants or messengers. 2008, on obo village in car kidnapped 55 children) (somalia: in al- Coalition so top the use of child soldiers estimates that more than. Treatment of child soldiers: brutal initiations involving cannibalism; used as human shields; girls raped, physically abused, made sex slaves; Convention on the involvement of children in armed conflict ratified by.
