Child Soldiers are Abused and Deprived of Human Rights

Today, an estimated 300,000 children under the age of 18 are participating in armed conflict around the world. Thousands of people are recruiting or faced with military and group members who are not currently engaged in war. The life of a child soldier (McManimon) is full of fear, violence, terrible living conditions, proper disinfection and nutritional deficiency. Initially, as soldiers children may "flee" from poverty living for their promises, most children tend to get worse than they already lived.

Recent international standards emphasize the use of children as soldiers is a violation of human rights. Absolutely prohibited the compulsory recruitment of any child under the age of 18 to the armed forces of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Rights of the Child on the Participation of Children in Armed Conflicts, Optional Protocol (Article 2). People under the age of 18 can voluntarily recruit national forces under certain rigorous conditions to ensure that such recruitment is voluntary (Article 3). Article 4 of the "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child" stipulates that armed groups with different "armed groups" are absolutely prohibited. In any event, it is stipulated that battle shall not be recruited or used under the age of 18 I am in

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Power, fraud and enforcement - Child soldiers are manifestations of child trafficking as combatants of armed groups and other forms of recruitment or use of illegal workers. Several child soldiers are also sexually exploited by armed groups. The perpetrator may be a government army, a paramilitary organization, or an anti-government organization. Many children are forcibly abducted as combatants. Others are treated as porters, cooks, security guards, servants, messengers or spies. A young girl may marry a commander or a male combatant, or may have sex. Male and female child soldiers are often sexually abused and at high risk of sexually transmitted diseases

Children in the theater act as perpetrators and may become children's soldiers. It is estimated that there are about 300,000 children soldiers in the world, of which 40% are girls. Children are also victims of armed conflict. They evacuated as child soldiers, suffering from sexually transmitted diseases, access to education was refused. The existence of children during the war can be traced back to the medieval and Napoleonic wars. The children participated in the civil war in the United States and contributed greatly to the new market war in Virginia province (May 15, 1864). Children were also known as World War II, especially Hitler Youth. However, in modern times, as the proportion of civilian casualties increases, the number of victims is also increasing. In the 18th century, from the 19th century to the early 20th century, about half of the war victims were civilians, nearly 90% died at the end of the 1980s.