Child Soldiers: Prevention and Protection
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CHILD SOLDIERS: PREVENTION AND PROTECTION Congress passed the groundbreaking Child Soldiers Prevention Act in 2008, prohibiting the United States from giving several forms of military assistance to governments using child soldiers. However, the Act allows the President to waive these prohibitions in full or in part if he determines that doing so is in the national interest of the United States. The panel of noted ex perts will discuss the effectiveness of the waivers and rehabilitation measures for former child soldiers. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015, 7:00 to 8:30 P.M. House of the Association, 42 West 44 th Street Speakers: GRACE AKALLO Former Child Soldier and Founder and Executive Director of Un ited Africans for Women and Children Rights (UAWCR) JO BECKER Advocacy Director, Children's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch LEILA ZERROUGI Under Secretary-General, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary- General for Children and Armed Conflict DANIEL MAHANTY, Senior Advisor for Security and Human Rights at the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Moderator: ELIZABETH BARAD, International Law and Gender Consultant, Co-chair, Committee on African Affairs Members of the Association, their guests and all interested persons are invited to attend. No fee or reservation is required. Please R.S.V.P. to [email protected] Sponsored by the NY City Bar’s Committee on Af r ica n A ffair s (E liza b e t h B a rad a nd B r and on Smi th, C o-C hair s) and co -sponso r e d by the C om m i ttee on I nte r nat i ona l H uman Ri ghts (C ha i r , E lisa b e t h Wi cke r i ) , the C yrus R . V a nc e Ce nt e r for I nt e r na t i o nal J ust i ce ( A le xand e r Pap ac hr istou, E xe cuti ve D i r e cto r ) and the C o mmi tt ee on C hi ldr en a nd the L aw ( C ha i r , M e r e d i t h H am she r ).
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CHILD SOLDIERS:
PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
Congress passed the groundbreaking Child Soldiers Prevention Act in 2008, prohibiting
the United States from giving several forms of military assistance to governments using
child soldiers. However, the Act allows the President to waive these prohibitions in full
or in part if he determines that doing so is in the national interest of the United States.
The panel of noted experts will discuss the effectiveness of the waivers and
rehabilitation measures for former child soldiers.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015, 7:00 to 8:30 P.M.
House of the Association, 42 West 44th Street
Speakers:
GRACE AKALLO
Former Child Soldier and Founder and Executive Director of United Africans for
Women and Children Rights (UAWCR)
JO BECKER
Advocacy Director, Children's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
LEILA ZERROUGI
Under Secretary-General, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-
General for Children and Armed Conflict
DANIEL MAHANTY, Senior Advisor for Security and Human Rights at the State
Departments Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Moderator: ELIZABETH BARAD, International Law and Gender Consultant,
Co-chair, Committee on African Affairs
Members of the Association, their guests and all interested persons are invited to
attend. No fee or reservation is required. Please R.S.V.P. to [email protected]
Sponsored by the NY City Bars Committee on African Affairs (Elizabeth Barad and
Brandon Smith, Co-Chairs) and co-sponsored by the Committee on International Human
Rights (Chair, Elisabeth Wickeri), the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice
(Alexander Papachristou, Executive Director) and the Committee on Children and the Law
(Chair, Meredith Hamsher ).
mailto:[email protected]
GRACE AKALLOLEILA ZERROUGI
