Child+Soldiers+Campaign


 * Amnesty International Campaign against the use of Child Soldiers

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=About Child Soldiers=


 * Around the world, children are singled out for recruitment by both armed forces and armed opposition groups, and exploited as combatants. Easily manipulated, children are sometimes coerced to commit grave atrocities, including rape and murder of civilians using assault rifles such as AK-47s and G4s. Some are forced to injure or kill members of their own families or other child soldiers. Others serve as porters, cooks, guards, messengers, spies, and sex slaves.**

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 * Art by Child Soldiers

Click on this picture to see examples of art by former child soldiers. Think about some of the themes and how this reflects what we discussed in class. **



=Videos about Child Soldiers=

=**media type="youtube" key="ibW0lICnO3k" height="237" width="294" media type="youtube" key="Tc5329kuhaU" height="223" width="288" Dear President Obama....**= = Write to the President and encourage him to stop US funding the governments who use child soldiers. **Restricting U.S. Military Assistance to Child Soldier Perpetrators** On April 19, 2007, U.S. Senators Durbin and Brownback introduced the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007. This bill restricts U.S. military assistance to governments that are implicated in supporting the recruitment or use of children in government armed forces or government-allied armed groups as a means to help end this practice. The Child Soldier and Prevention Act also urges the United States to expand its efforts to help remove and rehabilitate children from armed forces and groups around the world and work with the international community to bring to justice armed oppositional groups that have kidnapped children for use as soldiers. Please join Amnesty International's campaign to support the Child Soldier Prevention Act. **Write to President Obama and urge him to support the Child Soldier Prevention Act. The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 **  =