Child Soldiers’ Struggle
Child soldier issues are a huge thing in less privileged areas. In an article P.W. Singer said “One of the original sins of humanity has been its inability to live at peace. From the very beginning of history, conflicts over food, territory, riches, power, and prestige have been an almost constant recurrence. Indeed, much of what is written in human history is simply a history of warfare. The world that we know today, from the states that we live in to the technology that we use daily, has been greatly shaped by violent struggle.” This ties into human rights violation in countries that has poverty, high percentages of poor education, corrupt governments, and lack of important resource has the most child soldiers... …show more content…
P.W. Singer said in an article, “…The government set up camps for street children, and then rounded up children to fill them in a purported attempt to "clean up" Khartoum. These camps, however, served as reservoirs for army conscription.” In places like Sudan they take children from the streets and put them in camps to prepare them for the war before they put them in the wars, so now if a child is living on their own they to worry about being taking to a war preparation camp. There are both boys and girls being taking away from their families to fight in these wars. Both girls and boys are feeling as if they do not go to war then they have nothing else to do. In an article called “Sierra Leone’s Child Soldiers…” said that “Assessments revealed that the nature, frequency, and severity of most war-related experiences were similar for male and female CAAFAG. Boys and girls reported witnessing similarly high rates of beatings, injuries, torture and violent deaths. Females were just as likely to have witnessed bomb explosions, massacres and indiscriminate firing, and were more likely than males to have witnessed stabbings, shootings and raids of homes.” So not only are these kids being put in wars they are also being abused some are even getting sexually abused. …show more content…
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 Yemen. Lisa Schlein said in the article “UN Campaigns to End Recruitment of Child Soldiers” she also quoted ““No government in the world is telling us, 'I have the right to recruit children to send them to fight. It is not your business.' No one is telling us this," said Zerrougui. "Out of the eight listed, six already signed the action plan with the United Nations and the two remaining are in the process of finalizing their action plan.”” That quote states that these countries know that they are not supposed to be letting these under age children fighting in wars. These countries know that they are not supposed to be allowing children to fight in wars but they still allow them to. Something needs to be done more than what the United Nation say they are doing now. The United Nation should be more concerned than they say are. In the article “Facts About Child Soldiers” they say “The ILO Convention of the Worst Forms of Child Labor prohibits the forced or compulsory recruitment of children under the age of 18 for use in armed conflict. It has been ratified by over 150 countries.” It is sickening that over one hundred and fifty countries are “recruiting children under the age of eighteen. If they were truly and
Child soldier issues are a huge thing in less privileged areas. In an article P.W. Singer said “One of the original sins of humanity has been its inability to live at peace. From the very beginning of history, conflicts over food, territory, riches, power, and prestige have been an almost constant recurrence. Indeed, much of what is written in human history is simply a history of warfare. The world that we know today, from the states that we live in to the technology that we use daily, has been greatly shaped by violent struggle.” This ties into human rights violation in countries that has poverty, high percentages of poor education, corrupt governments, and lack of important resource has the most child soldiers... …show more content…
P.W. Singer said in an article, “…The government set up camps for street children, and then rounded up children to fill them in a purported attempt to "clean up" Khartoum. These camps, however, served as reservoirs for army conscription.” In places like Sudan they take children from the streets and put them in camps to prepare them for the war before they put them in the wars, so now if a child is living on their own they to worry about being taking to a war preparation camp. There are both boys and girls being taking away from their families to fight in these wars. Both girls and boys are feeling as if they do not go to war then they have nothing else to do. In an article called “Sierra Leone’s Child Soldiers…” said that “Assessments revealed that the nature, frequency, and severity of most war-related experiences were similar for male and female CAAFAG. Boys and girls reported witnessing similarly high rates of beatings, injuries, torture and violent deaths. Females were just as likely to have witnessed bomb explosions, massacres and indiscriminate firing, and were more likely than males to have witnessed stabbings, shootings and raids of homes.” So not only are these kids being put in wars they are also being abused some are even getting sexually abused. …show more content…
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 Yemen. Lisa Schlein said in the article “UN Campaigns to End Recruitment of Child Soldiers” she also quoted ““No government in the world is telling us, 'I have the right to recruit children to send them to fight. It is not your business.' No one is telling us this," said Zerrougui. "Out of the eight listed, six already signed the action plan with the United Nations and the two remaining are in the process of finalizing their action plan.”” That quote states that these countries know that they are not supposed to be letting these under age children fighting in wars. These countries know that they are not supposed to be allowing children to fight in wars but they still allow them to. Something needs to be done more than what the United Nation say they are doing now. The United Nation should be more concerned than they say are. In the article “Facts About Child Soldiers” they say “The ILO Convention of the Worst Forms of Child Labor prohibits the forced or compulsory recruitment of children under the age of 18 for use in armed conflict. It has been ratified by over 150 countries.” It is sickening that over one hundred and fifty countries are “recruiting children under the age of eighteen. If they were truly and