13/03/2014
UN Campaigns To End Recruitment of Child Soldiers
Lisa Schlein GENEVA ? The United Nations is launching a campaign to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers by 2016. It says eight governments on a Security Council list of child recruiters have agreed to sign an quot;action planquot; to end these violations and to prevent them from occurring in the future. The United Nations has a list of 55 parties that recruit child soldiers. Among them are 46 non-state actors and eight governments, including those of Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and...
