Sentences with phrase «as child soldiers»

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.

Both girls and boys are used as child soldiers.

In addition, students research examples of contemporary slavery — such as child soldiers in Burma and unpaid agricultural workers in the U.S. — and create brochures to educate the community about slavery's existence today and how it can be eradicated.

As a child, Vlad III Tepes (Luke Evans) and hundreds of other boys were forced to fight as child soldiers for the Turkish army.

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

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.

Raiden was once feared as the child soldier «Jack the Ripper» on the front lines of the First Liberian Civil War

Best - case scenario: Iweala's novel drew acclaim for its unflinching look at life as a child soldier.

While providing some narrative context to Raiden's background as a child soldier, Revengeance also realizes the gameplay possibilities of his transformation into a cyborg ninja.

In this graphic - novel memoir, Chikwanine chronicles the harrowing tale of his kidnapping at age five in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including the horrors of life as a child soldier.

Beah tells, in his own words, his harrowing experiences as a child soldier in the Sierra Leone civil war.

This is a sobering look at life as a child soldier, and the graphic novel format is a powerful medium for transporting the reader into the world of the story.

The main character, Raiden, was once feared as the child soldier «Jack the Ripper» on the front lines of the First Liberian Civil War.

As a child soldier, he was forced to undergo extensive cybernetic experimentation, leaving him dependent on his robotic body.

In one film, the filmmaker interviews a Nigerian refugee seeking asylum in London about his experiences as a child soldier.

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.

Not exact matches

An attack on Save the Children's Jalalabad office on January 24 that killed six people and an attack on Kabul's military academy on January 29 that killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers were claimed by ISIS» Afghan branch — known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — Khorasan Province (ISIS - K).

Then, he was airlifted to the U.S. as part of a program developed to help the children of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam.

I tell Slinky to let every child know that they are safe from the soldiers they know as Tom - Tom, meaning «cut - cut.»

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.

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

Of course, any suggestion that children should be cloned for directly instrumental purposes, such as organ harvesting or providing the military with more soldiers or a basketball team with more talented players, should be rejected out of hand.

We are not called to imitate Jesus as a child seeks to imitate a parent, nor are we called to obey him in the manner of soldiers obeying a direct order.

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.

Then came a day when Jeremiah was watching as Babylonian soldiers marched Rachel's offspring, children of Israel, naked and trembling along that same road toward exile far away.

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).

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.

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.

Nor can those Americans who actually serve, whether in the army proper or in any enterprise connected to their country's defense, have quite so immediate and close - quartered a connection as do Israel's soldiers to the wives and children and parents and friends they are called upon to defend.

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.»

As a child during World War I she refused to eat sugar because French soldiers had none.

And the same is true of the popular use of the word «sacrifice», as when a mother dies for her child or a soldier on the field of battle.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

Worse, they compel children to kill one another and their own families, fighting as «soldiers» in an armed force deliberately composed of children.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

And what of the children starving in Africa, being conscripted as child - soldiers in civil wars, etc., around the world?

«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».

The military, though allegedly suffered casualties as two of its men were killed in the operation, several hostages including men, women, children were rescued by the soldiers in the raid.

According to him, the soldiers gathered the victims in a primary school in the village to protect them from attacks in the area, adding that while the soldiers occupied the classroom which they used as their operational base, the women and children occupied the next classroom.

«As I said when I received Amina Ali Nkeki, the rescued Chibok girl, our determination and commitment to the protection of our Children is unshaken, this Government is resolute in our efforts at rescuing all the missing Chibok Girls, the recent rescue of Amina Ali Nkeki and Sarah Luka by our gallant Soldiers and the Civilian JTF is a testimony to our unwavering resolve at defeating Boko Haram terrorists.

They presented participants with moral dilemmas such as the decision whether or not to kill one's own crying child to keep it raising the attention of enemy soldiers and thereby endangering the whole group.

The Family Advocacy Program offers a breadth of valuable services to families, such as parenting classes, child care services, and classes focused on a soldier's reintegration into home life.

It's also used as the standard for rating overall fitness among school children and soldiers alike.

Small children played marbles next door as Howitzer - like guns went off and drones flew around and were fired at by soldiers with automatic rifles trying to shoot them down before they could drop grenades.

With its focus on Central African youth in peril, interludes of dreamy stylization and non-native directorial perspective, «White Shadow» will routinely be compared to Kim Nguyen's recent, Oscar - nominated child - soldier study «War Witch» — which also, as it happens, featured a significant albino character.

Let's also keep our soldiers in our country where they can help defend OUR borders as well as help out at schools to protect our school children.

Shocking and wrenching scenes abound — a Jewish worker is dropped to his knees as the Nazi commandant tries to shoot him in the head with a gun that repeatedly misfires, Jews are forced to strip and run around a compound in order to prove themselves healthy enough to live as workers, a soldier plays a piano in an apartment building as his comrades roam from room to room, randomly firing on men, women and children...

They wait for the soldier's mother, as required by their protocols, reluctant to share the information with the unwed mother of his child.

Idris Elba owns the screen in a career defining role as the commander of child soldiers.

«Ender's Game» Synopsis: In a future where Earth is at war with an insectoid alien race known as the Formics, a group of talented children are brought into space to train to be elite soldiers.