Sentences with phrase «of child soldiers»

The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier.

What the movie gets right, without any kind of attempts that might exploit, is the depiction of the training of child soldiers.

What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier?

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.

Adrienne Paone, an English teacher at Pedro Menendez High School in St. Augustine, will assign students a few nonfiction articles on gun control as an accompaniment to the memoir «A Long Way Gone,» which exposes the plight of child soldiers in Africa.

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.

The Forbidden Room / Canada (Directors: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Screenwriters: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk)-- A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

Granted I don't think the concept of child soldiers perpetrating war crimes makes for an easy pitch, so good for Fukunaga for committing to it and for involving a quality actor in the British thespian.

This lesson introduces students to the individual experiences of child soldiers as well as larger issues like the impact of war on children through reporting on Boko Haram.

On a larger scale: a group of citizens can organise the adoption of a rule or standard that curbs the power of the powerful and that limits their freedom to act in the name of an accepted social good (a minimum wage level, a prohibition of the recruitment of child soldiers).

Mark Nonkes from World Vision attended the ceremony where the children were set free and said it's the largest release of child soldiers ever in the country.

«They can educate lawmakers on the CSPA and the issue of child soldiers, as many are not aware of these issues.»

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.»

It was Invisible Children that first made me aware of the plight of child soldiers around the world, and so I've always been sympathetic to their cause.

«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.

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

Cary Joji Fukunaga's depiction of child soldiers in war - torn Africa lends nuance to brutality and its impact, thanks in large part to a magnetic cast that includes Idris Elba, Kurt Egyiawan, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye, and a staggering breakout turn from Abraham Attah.

The use of child soldiers still occurs today.

To play a child soldier in a film designed to be emblematic of the experiences of child soldiers everywhere is a heavy responsibility, but newcomer Abraham Attah is a revelation in Cary Fukunaga «s adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala «s novel.

Other international productions with major roles for British talent include German thriller Colonia, starring Emma Watson, and Beasts of No Nation, produced by Netflix, directed by True Detective's Cary Fukunaga, and starring Idris Elba as a mercenary in charge of child soldiers in an unnamed African country.

I like how they take the concept of his child soldier self resurfacing, together with his old alias «Jack the Ripper».

In case studies in El Salvador, Ethiopia, and Uganda, almost a third of the child soldiers were reported to be girls.

Iweala's debut novel, Beast of No Nation, tells the story of a child soldier in West Africa, and came out of his undergraduate thesis work at Harvard.

Win an autographed copy of this riveting fact - meets - fiction account of child soldiers and drug wars in Colombia by the author of the international blo

Told through the eyes of a young sister and brother caught up in the Liberian Civil War, this story depicts the lives of child soldiers.

For French artists Zim & Zou — featured previously — it seemed apt to name their latest project Douceur / Douleur, as it was inspired by the tragic condition of child soldiers used in different conflicts all over the world.

Sad Hanky is just that, sad hankies, which show peaceful scenes where innocence is lost, such as flower fields showing the shadow of a child soldier.

Dallaire suggested instead a focus on the recruitment process of child soldiers.

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

Through her elliptical style, Denis offers a vivid impression of her heroine's world in pieces, with gorgeous landscape shots interspersed with images of child soldiers and of a woman slowly coming undone.

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon and a battalion of child soldier all get more than they bargained for as the wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

Many readers had no idea that children as young as ten were fighting and having to kill people, so we put together a campaign to help put a stop to the use of child soldiers in adult wars.

What I got was a game that had contained the plight of child soldiers, guerrilla warfare and redemption all wrapped in a near - inappropriate layer of silliness.

«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.

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

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.

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.

One of these child soldiers, we hear, was the man who would become Vlad the Impaler (Luke Evans), heretofore known as VTI for short.

Technological advances in weaponry and the proliferation of small arms have contributed to the increased use of child soldiers.

Cesare Lucchini's second exhibition at rosenfeld porcini pursues his exploration of certain dramatic events, which have and continue to afflict contemporary society such as the oil slick disaster in Mexico (2010), the boat tragedies off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, and African conflicts — more specifically the use of child soldiers.