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U.S. | Anti-War | Education & Student Activism | Front Page

Thu Jun 26 2008 Recruiting Children to Become Soldiers
On June 6, responding to an ACLU report on recruiter abuses, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issued a report urging the U.S. to make sweeping policy changes regarding domestic military recruitment practices. Although the U.S. signed the UN's Optional Protocol on the involvement of Children in Armed Conflict in 2002, military recruiters still target children under 18 years of age for enlistment with techniques that include false promises and coercion.

This summer the Raging Grannies Action League will continue their public information campaign to reach children and parents with facts about military enlistment. In a recent press release they state, "[I]t is up to parents to make themselves informed and know who is influencing your child. Should your student come home with a military contract, be sure to read carefully both sides of any document he or she may sign. The enlistment contract is cleverly formatted to disguise the fact that although it is binding on the recruit, nothing in it is actually binding on the military."

photoPhotos | ACLU: U.N. Committee Decries Military Treatment Of Youth At Home And Abroad | Military Recruitment in School Violates International Protocol | WILPF to United Nations: Stop Military Recruitment in US schools! | RIGHTS-US: School Recruiting Could Violate Int'l Protocol

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