Sentences with phrase «child soldiers for»

She rounds up and trains child soldiers for battle and explicitly instructs them not to fall in love.

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

In 2002, the US Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory organised a «Cultural Intelligence Seminar» on the implication of child soldiering for US forces.

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Joseph Kony, an African warlord who has kidnapped children and forced them to become soldiers for decades, was the face of a 30 - minute YouTube video that went viral back in March 2012.

This followed a truly remarkable evening on Friday during which Stephen Harper posted on Facebook that the government's settlement with Khadr was «simply wrong;» his son Ben Harper tweeted a donation to yet another Ezra Levant website collecting money for the children of the soldier whose death is at the heart of the Khadr affair; and Laureen Harper followed suit.

I've added you, your children, and your parents names to the Global list of Nazi Sympathizing Al Quida soldiers for everyone to see.

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.

And regardless that does not matter because if soldiers go in and kill woman and children and have no mercy, that is not just, it is not moral, there is no excuse for indiscriminate killing of innocents.

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.

Religion News Service: Fred Phelps» son condemns Westboro's plan to picket Newtown funerals The estranged son of a Kansas pastor famous for protesting the funerals of soldiers and AIDS victims has condemned his family's plans to picket the funerals of the 26 people — including 20 children — who were killed when a gunman stormed a Connecticut elementary school.

RFK assassination; Munich Olympics massacre; Teheran US embassy takeover; Pan Am Flight 103; US Marine barracks in Beirut blown up; Pope John Paul II shot; cruise ship Achille Lauro hijacked — disabled man murdered; TWA 847 hijacked — US Navy diver murdered; WTC bombed; US embassies Kenya Tanzania bombed; USS Cole bombed 17 crew killed; 4 airliners hijacked to destroy WH, Twin Towers, Pentagon; Daniel Pearl kidnapped / beheaded; 13 US Ft Hood Soldiers murdered; Theo Van Gogh murdered for producing film «Submission»; US Ambassador to Libya assassinated; US Embassy in Cairo ransacked; Toulouse, France, 4 Jewish children murdered

O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it --

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

From this fund, we regularly buy groceries for needy families, make chicken soup for our sick friends, watch the children so a deployed soldier's wife can get a few hours to herself, take blessings baskets to folks who need a smile after life's tripped them up, and numerous other ways of blessing and loving others.

Craig has stated it must have been terribly upsetting for Israelite soldiers to burst into homes and kill infants and children in front of their mothers who they also had to slay because Yahweh wanted them to commit genocide.

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).

If you were to ask a group of Quakers or Mennonites whether it's OK for police or soldiers to use rubber bullets against rock - throwing children, you wouldn't be surprised if they said, «Absolutely not!»

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.»

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.&rChild 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.&rchild 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.

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.

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.»

Some examples might be writing a nice letter to their teacher, making holiday cards for children who are ill, writing a letter to a soldier overseas, or even giving extra hugs or compliments to others that day.

In l999 Kathy exec - produced a one - hour CNN documentary, Soldiers of Peace: A Children's Crusade, about the Colombian children's peace movement, nominated for the Nobel PeacChildren's Crusade, about the Colombian children's peace movement, nominated for the Nobel Peacchildren's peace movement, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

With my first child in 2012, the Army did not have a specific regulation addressing female soldiers» needs for pumping.

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

To protect themselves from each other's lawmakers they compete to fund grateful lawmakers of their own; politicians are like magical soldiers for these warring magnates, not unlike a child's trading card game.

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.

They (soldiers) were going about arresting school children and other young people in the name of looking for members of the Niger Delta Avengers.

Members of Parliament are asking government to establish a scholarship scheme to cater for the children of slain soldier Captain Maxwell Mahama.

«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.

Their use of shareable photos of soldiers, animals and little children, has allowed them to gather a mass online following for their extreme and fundamentalist views.

No fewer than 144 ex-Maoist child soldiers have been arrested by Nepal police following protests at the headquarters of their former party on Tuesday, a spokesman for Kathmandu police office, disclosed.

Former General Officer Commanding 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major General Kamaldeen Role on Saturday commended late Brigadier General Solomon Giwa Amu, the former Aide De Camp (ADC) to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for his impact in the education of children of soldiers in the barracks community.

«Physicians and other personnel are not there for years at a time; they're going in for maybe six weeks or six months, into a very tense environment and making resource - allocation decisions, deciding who gets care and who doesn't: our soldiers versus friendly soldiers versus enemy combatants versus civilians, children.

For contrast, consider the resonance phenomenon — like a child pushed on a swing or soldiers marching on a bridge.

Although an intravenous vaccine will be fine for Western travelers or soldiers, giving the injections safely will be a challenge in poor countries where skilled health workers are scarce — especially in small children whose veins are hard to find.

Some programs worked in one country but failed in another: Teaching emotional regulation to former child soldiers in Sierra Leone improved their social relationships, for example, whereas a similar effort for Palestinian children increased symptoms of PTSD.

Children under age two may be at heightened risk for abuse and neglect during the six months immediately following a parent's return from deployment in the U.S. Army, and the risk may rise among Army families with soldiers who are deployed more than once.

«While incidents of child abuse and neglect among military families are well below that of the general population, this study is another indicator of the stress deployments place on soldiers, family members and caregivers,» said Karl F. Schneider, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs.

One key weapon against cancer is to supercharge T - cells — the foot - soldiers of the immune system — to better detect and kill tumors, and a new trial at the Children's Research Institute has delivered promising results, keeping cases of Hodgkin's lymphoma at bay for years at a time.

One key technique is to supercharge T - cells — the foot - soldiers of the immune system — to better detect and kill tumors, and a new trial at the Children's Research Institute has delivered promising results, keeping cases of Hodgkin's lymphoma at bay for years at a time.

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

He is a veteran who was once a young soldier, and fought alongside the Americans during WWII; a father who raised 7 children; and a husband who, after 30 years, still makes the same «perfect» cup of coffee every day for his wife.

Three of the studies observed marathon runners, one researched Swiss school children at a skiing camp and another observed Canadian soldiers for the duration of a winter exercise.

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Self - monikered Firefist for his destructive incendiary abilities, Russell is not the easiest child to foster, and Wade's attempts to bond with him are further complicated by cybernetic soldier Cable (played by this summer's Marvel - movie MVP Josh Brolin), who arrives from the future to destroy Russell for Terminator-esque reasons.

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

Soldiers chase a group of adults and children in a warehouse type dwelling, shooting them with a combination sleep - drug and tracking device (please see the Substance Use category for more details); the people fall to the floor, asleep, and we see a tiny ball bearing stuck on the skin at the neck or shoulder; one woman rolls down a staircase (she is unharmed and awake), and a little girl cries and runs off screen.