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The child soldier
Who is this man?
#bethechange
5 Days of Freedom
Children’s Rights
1998
myth
reality
New definition
• UNICEF defines a ‘child soldier’ as any child – boy or girl – under 18 years of age, who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group in any capacity, including, but not limited to: cooks, porters, messengers, and anyone accompanying such groups other than family members. It includes girls and boys recruited for forced sexual purposes and/or forced marriage. The definition, therefore, does not only refer to a child who is carrying, or has carried, weapons.
(Based on the ‘Cape Town Principles’, 1997)
2013
Afghanistan, Burma, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, DRC, India, Iraq, Peru, Phillipnes, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, South Sudan, Thailand, Yemen
16 COUNTRIES AND 200,000 + CHILD SOLDIERS
Children’s rights?
8 things you can do RIGHT NOW/ TODAY to make a difference
• Use your access to technology to give voice!
• On April 18- BE SILENT!• At School- get involved through
clubs and organizations• Get Political- hold our leaders
accountable!• In Local/Global Community-
volunteer! • Get a REAL job!• Read Up• Follow & ReTweet
must reads
must follows #bethechange
• War Child Canada @WarChildCan • ChildSoldiers.org @ChildSoldiers• W2I @W2IProject • UNICEF @UNICEF• AmnestyInternational @amnesty• Free The Children @freethechildren • Child Soldiers Int. @ChildSoldiersIn• Human Rights Watch @hrw• child rights (CRIN) @CRINwire