BAN CHILD SOLDIERS

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Author: Christine Huynh

Started: April 23, 2007, 9:39:06 am

Target: Africa

Category: Civil & Human Rights

Supporters:

Goal:

100,000

Goal Progress:

Status

Active

Worldwide, more than half a million children under-18 have been recruited into government armed forces, paramilitaries, civil militia and a wide variety of non-state armed groups in more than 85 countries. At any one time, more than 300,000 of these children are actively fighting as soldiers with government armed forces or armed political groups. Often recruited or abducted to join armies, many of these children - some younger than 10 years old - have witnessed or taken part in acts of unbelievable violence, often against their own families or communities.They are abused and they suffer both physically and mentally

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