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Child Soldiers International reports that the success of the OPAC treaty, combined with the gradual decline in child recruitment by state armed forces, has led to a reduction of children in military organisations worldwide. [21] As of 2018 the recruitment and use of children remains widespread.
Cambodia's state armed forces also recruited children widely. Throughout the 1990s the army was recruiting children from the age of 10 and using them in armed conflict, mainly as porters and spies, and also as combatants. [21] Four percent of the army were children, according to an estimate in the Cambodia Daily. [85]
Despite this trend, Child Soldiers International reports that the recruitment of children for military purposes remains widespread, including by armed forces in the three most populous countries – China, India and the United States – and the most economically powerful (all G7 countries apart from Italy and Japan). [10]
A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam last month, after being approached by a man from an armed group. The girl, Peyal Aqil, was with friends when she ...
According to Child Soldiers International, as of 2017 approximately two-thirds of states worldwide had committed to restrict military recruitment to adults from age 18, and at least 60 non-state armed groups had signed agreements to stop or reduce the use of children for military purposes.
The preamble of the resolution noted recent efforts to bring to an end the use of child soldiers in violation of international law, including the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court which prohibits forced conscription of children under the age of fifteen in armed forces or the participation in war crimes.
Boys are often used as informants, trained to use weapons and ammunition, and deployed in clashes against the police, HRW said. Girls are raped and forced to cook and clean for gang members, the ...
The role of international actors has been crucial in protecting children from recruitment into armed forces. [86] The Additional Protocols to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, added in 1977, state that 15 is the minimum age for serving in armed forces. In 1989 the United Nations passed the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Article ...