If this is studies in women ad the environment - presumably
talking about stuff from a womans point of view whay are we
talking about child soldiers? Yes it's bad and down right
daft that Britain and US have under age soldiers but surely
talking about children on an ecofem page is just pandering
to and reinforcing the idea that women look after children
while men go out and do nasty things.
just a thought.
-vikki
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 10:09:47 -1000 Viviane Lerner
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> 300,000 Child Soldiers Serving World-Wide
> http://www.aviva.org/newsinex.htm
> It is estimated that there are a total of 300,000 child soldiers on the
> front line of battle, in every continent. Children are involved in ongoing
> conflicts in Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, Colombia, Congo, El Salvador,
> Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, Sudan and
> Uganda. During Sierra Leone's brutal war of amputations, children have been
> abducted to special camps to be trained, and drugged - so that they believed
> they had magical powers to resist enemy bullets. In Uganda, children aged
> between 13 to 16 make up to 90% of the Lord's Resistance Army, which is
> fighting the government in the north of the country. As human rights groups
> are pressing for adoption of an optional protocol on the Rights of the
> Child, which would raise the minimum age of recruitment into the armed
> forces from 15 to 18 - the US and Britain have said they would not block the
> protocol - but continue themselves to recruit 16 year olds. The Convention
> of the Rights of the Child, which marks its 10th anniversary in November,
> has been ratified by 191 countries - the US and Somalia remain the only
> countries who have not signed up. Source: BBC World Service, 18.10.99
>
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