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US: Urge Congress to pass the Child Soldier Prevention Act

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An estimated 250,000 children, some as young as eight years old, are serving in armed conflict as spies, messengers, and too often, as front-line combatants. Many female child soldiers are forced to serve as sex slaves to military commanders. Human Rights Watch co-founded the International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and helped lead the campaign for a UN treaty to ban the use of children in armed conflict.

The Child Soldier Prevention Act (S1175) is bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) that would limit US military assistance to governments who use or recruit child soldiers. Of nine governments implicated in the recruitment or use of child soldiers, 8 receive US military assistance. US tax dollars should not be used to support the exploitation of children as soldiers. Moreover, US weapons should not end up in the hands of children. Learn More.


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