The United Nation’s committee on the Rights of Children have
urged the United States make more of an effort to ensure the rights of children
in conflict. A recent report has shown
that the United States has breached the laws as found in a convention in 2002
that was ratified by the United Nations.
This includes the killing of civilian children, being tortured, using
child soldiers, assisting those using child soldiers, and handing children to
other governments that may torture children.
The United States have killed many children in their conflicts. They have also detained children with adults
so that they have no special education or the right to special needs that
children have.
The United States does have the Child Soldiers Prevention
Act which was adopted in 2008. This
simple law says that the United States cannot assist governments using child
soldiers. This has been broken by the
fact that the president has made exceptions to this by signing special
wavers. The countries that have this
waiver with child soldiers include Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo,
Libya, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen.
I think this is absolutely disgusting. The United States should not be signing
waivers to continue to assist militarily to those using child soldiers. Child soldiers in general should never be
used under any circumstances and to think that the United Sates is assisting
those who use them is not okay in any way.
There should be more of an effort to help children in areas of conflict
including the help of child soldiers and those who have been displaced from
their homes because of conflict. This is
a very urgent problem that is happening right now and needs to be fixed.
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