Sentences with phrase «child soldiers international»

Organizations such as Child Soldiers International are involved in combating the use of children in armies.

«It's time for the MoD to recognise what more and more young people and their parents are realising — that enlisting at 16 is not in their best interests,» Richard Clarke, Director of Child Soldiers International said.

«In theory, under [the CSPA], the U.S. government is supposed to be able to block military aid that otherwise would have gone to the states on the basis of their child recruitment,» explains Tim Molyneux, the Child Rights Program Manager at Child Soldiers International, an international advocacy group that works to end the use of child soldiers.

Not exact matches

According to international law, child soldiers are supposed to be treated like innocent victims of war, to be demobilized and interrogated.

ACLU, Amnesty International, UNICEF, Doctor's Without Borders, Engineers Without Borders, Donors Choose, Oxfam, Kiva, Goodwill Industries, The Nature Conservancy, Rotary Fund, Seed Foundation, The Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort or S.H.A.R.E., The Union of Concerned Scientists, United Nations Children's Fund, The Wheelchair Foundation, The Anti Discrimination Support Network, The Tanzanian Children's Fund, PlanUSA, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Afghan Children's Fund, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (Superman was an atheist), Coalition to stop the use of child soldiers, Direct Relief International, The Halo Trust, Orbis....

After all Iran is the country that suffered the loss of over 200 men, women and children who were blown out of the sky in international airspace; it is also Iran whose citizens and soldiers were killed by chemical weapons attacks.

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Perhaps this can give us hope for the countless children affected by wars today, including the estimated 300,000 child soldiers fighting in more than 85 countries (according to Amnesty International, 2006).

The artists» first major museum survey, this exhibition will present large - scale paintings created in conjunction with international communities, including American soldiers in Iraq, coal miners in Pennsylvania, Cairo citizens in the Arab Spring, and stateless children in Thailand.

From women's rights in Indonesia to girls as child soldiers, the 2005 edition of Pandora's Boxhighlighted important issues on an international level as well as within Australia.

Dewar and Dallaire, a retired lieutenant general, were speakers at a sold - out professional development session on human rights law jointly organized by the Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights and Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative.

When it comes to international response against child soldiers, much of the effort is at the «end tail of the issue,» Dallaire said.

The same can not be said for Canadian child soldiers captured abroad, detained by the world's sole superpower, and subjected to torture with Canadian complicity, in an area of international law where there is far more consensus.

While the government has opposed his release, human rights advocates such as Amnesty International have argued that the one - time child soldier has been denied access to due process.

In the international arena, Ms. Senft is one of the founding members of Mediators Beyond Borders ™, a non-profit offering conflict resolution aid and training for initiatives such as the Child Soldier Project in Ghana, the Greek Immigration Dialogue initiative in Athens and the Katrina Mediation Project in New Orleans and Biloxi, Mississippi.