Sentences with phrase «rwandan child soldier»

In comparing dictatorial Sudanese President Omar Hassan al - Bashir to Omar Khadr, because both were arguably once child soldiers, the Toronto Sun «s Peter Worthington attains stratospheric levels of incoherence.

uh huh, so if morals are inherent, why are child soldiers so common in the third world?

Speaking about the crisis, he said: «Today a group of these former child soldiers with whom I shared my life are standing shoulder to shoulder with me.

A Christian from Sierra Leone who helps former child soldiers and victims of Ebola has addressed the... More

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

A Christian from Sierra Leone who helps former child soldiers and victims of Ebola has addressed the Queen and thousands of others at a service in Westminster Abbey.

Dog tags are available on the Project: AK - 47 website, featuring the name, age, location and rank of a specific child soldier.

Male child soldiers are forced to rape under threat of death as part of their initiation, while in other cases men are rewarded for displays of brutality.

The Economist also told stories of soldiers who've been unable to hug their own children at home after pulling the trigger, and there have been soldiers who've committed suicide after being forced to kill child soldiers.

There are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers in the rogue military and other armed groups of the world.

If possible, Canada's guidelines say, try to shoot any adult military leaders to demoralize the child soldiers.

It suggests going in as heavily armed as possible, since child soldiers are often more inclined to tackle lightly armed units.

I know that wasn't your point about child soldiers, but interestingly, the «let it happen» is often tied back to greed, power, control... more of the «sin - soaked» and to me «sin» isn't necessarily only a «christian» concept.

Child soldier rescue, fighting sex trafficking — some justice issues sound more «exciting» than others, but what about the unsung work?

It's not signed by Bruce Springsteen, but by the former child soldiers in Uganda who enrolled in a school Goff helped start.

The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves.

Child soldiers are forced to fight for their lives — and sometimes against their families.

World Vision Children of War Reintegration Centre has helped rehabilitate and reintegrate nearly 15,000 former child soldiers and children born in captivity in the past decade.

Almost 300 child soldiers associated with South Sudan's numerous fighting groups have been released following intervention from Christian children's charity World Vision.

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The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

It's long been known that Somali rebels will kidnap children and force them to fight, but apparently the government — which is armed and supported by foreign governments, including the United States — is using child soldiers too.

This report about child soldiers is really sad and disturbing.

When James was just 13, he fled his home country to avoid being forced to become a child soldier.

«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.

As part of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 — named for the famous British Christian abolitionist responsible for the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 — Congress passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA).

And since 2008, nearly all of the penalties meant to be levied on countries that use child soldiers have been waived.

In 2008, the United States decided to take dramatic measures to prevent the spread of the use of child soldiers.

Militaries that use child soldiers or [use children for] training or supportfor peacekeeping operations and so on and so forth... In many cases, we're not actually talking about arms sales, it may just be training and other stuff.»

Many of those forced to participate in the campaign of violence were child soldiers — ones, who, as of November, are left out of the CSPA's protection.

In other words, if a country is making significant strides in reducing the use of child soldiers, Molyneux suggests that not entirely withholding military support might be appropriate.

As a result, American taxpayer money is currently supporting the use of child soldiers in several countries, and the highest levels of Congress, the State Department and White House all know about it.

Every year, the State Department issues the «Trafficking in Persons Report,» a document that tracks human trafficking, slavery, the use of child soldiers and other human rights violations across the world.

Within the report each year is a list of countries the State Department has identified «as having governmental armed forces or government - supported armed groups that recruit and use child soldiers.»

In July 2017, a new bill co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of four lawmakers was introduced «to ensure effective implementation of the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2008» and «to prohibit assistance from being provided to, or licenses for direct commercial sales of military equipment issued to, the government of a country whose police or other security forces recruit and use child soldiers.»

Officially marked «Not for Further Circulation,» the memo was leaked to reporters last fall and offered a concerning look at how the U.S. is now addressing child soldiers.

But no matter what the military assistance functionally looks like in individual countries, by ignoring the CSPA by issuing waivers to governments that knowingly recruit child soldiers, the purpose of the law is defeated.

PJ Cole spent his childhood fleeing danger and sharing his parents with hundreds of former child soldiers caught up in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war.

Last year, the Ugandan government offered amnesty to child soldiers, who compose 90 percent of the rebel force.

Almost 300 child soldiers associated with South Sudan's numerous fighting groups have been released following... More

These child soldiers are forced to kill or be killed by those who tear them away from their families.

«The US critics» association said the Ghanaian's debut as an African child soldier was «one of the strongest and most phenomenal we have ever seen» and said he had «a very bright future ahead of him».

Turning the girls into sex slaves and the boys into child soldiers.

With images of child soldiers and mutilated bodies flashing on the screen, Jason says in voiceover, «I could» t explain to Gavin the truth of what Joseph Kony does.

Emmanuel Jal, a Sudanese musician and former child soldier says, «in a way [this Invisible Children campaign] robbed the dignity of the people of Northern Uganda».

Child soldiers may also be considered noncombatants, since a crime has been committed for them to be fighting.

Placements last year included a mother with a five - year - old who had never been to London and a former child soldier.

Ntaganda, who has been charged with war crimes for conscripting children under the age of 15 as child soldiers, is reliant on Rwanda for weapons, ammunition and young Rwandan recruits.

«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.

The movie is a drama based on the experiences of Agu (played by Abraham Attah), a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed West African country.