Child soldiers are kids under age 18 who are usually forced to enlist for an armed group. Child soldiers don’t deserve the trauma they are forced to endure‚ and therefore should be granted amnesty after successful rehabilitation. Due to the fact that these children are so young‚ they don’t fully comprehend their actions which could cause them to be easily manipulated. Commanders and other people of higher rank could force a child soldier to commit many crimes against humanity and the child has no
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the unique way of protecting a child is to ensure maltreatment does not take place in the child’s life. This can be attained by‚ building capacity and strengthening families as well as communities to enable parents to raise healthy and happy children. Also‚ protecting a child is not only the responsibility of the parent but for everyone including the communities‚ governments‚ and business all of which need to work together to prevent child maltreatment. Child neglect does not have a single definition
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“In the last ten years‚ two million child soldiers have been killed‚ more than one million orphaned‚ more than six million left injured or permanently disabled‚ and more than 10 million diagnosed with psychological trauma” (Invisible Children). But that is only the beginning of this problem and it could get worse. Many young children find themselves in the army for various reasons. They commit many acts that are deemed as crimes. Some people think that they should be pardoned and some think otherwise
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Should Child Soldiers be prosecuted? By:Alizey Solis Period:7 Why are child soldiers forced to do things they aren’t supposed to do? These children are putting themselves at risk in the future but it’s not entirely their fault. Have you ever felt the guilt and pain they were going through during this time? Children are taken from anywhere (innocent children) taken from their families‚ and are turned into fighters but different armies.Because of this people are trying to prosecute these children
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“The object of employing children is not to train them‚ but to get high profits from their work‚” wrote Lewis Hine. Child labor was and still is real. People shouldn’t buy products that were manufactured from child labor. People shouldn’t buy products manufactured from a child with child labor because those children are being deprived of many things in life because of child labor. Children are deprived of their childhood and most of all their education. Although‚ some say that children go to work
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you were forced to kill others for whole years of your life‚ seeing the people bleed out each and every time as they struggle to hold onto life.This is what child soldiers are put through almost every day. In some parts of the world‚ such as Sierra Leone. There is tremendous disputes over child soldiers. Everyday hundreds if not thousands of child soldiers are drugged‚ abused‚ and brainwashed to kill others in the battlefields of Sierra Leone and countries alike. Now after all this‚ these children are
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Confessions of an Erstwhile Child is an essay which analyses the concept of the nuclear family. At first the author explains the ideas of Thomas More’s Utopia‚ but afterwards narrows his content by going into explaining his thoughts on children raised in dysfunctional families. He very cleverly shows the reader part family model’s with current ones‚ allowing his audience to make the decision for themselves. His tone is a logical philosophical. The reader is told of his depressing childhood growing
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culture of Africa. While reading these two articles about child soldiers‚ I learned a lot more about what is going on in the world today and how it affects children. I believe that child soldier practices should be banned because the children are put into dangerous situations and they won’t get to live a happy life. Others would say that child soldier practices should not be banned because the children are needed to keep people safe. Child soldier practices should be banned because the children are
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considered a child soldier. Children around the world are being exploited and forced against their will to defend their countries as child soldiers; however‚ countries such as Britain and the United States provide hope for many through children’s rights laws and programs like Child Soldiers International. There are many factors at play for choosing to have youngsters
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children around the world are trapped in child labor‚ 73 million of those children work in Africa and the Middle East alone. Many of these kids work in hazardous conditions in rural areas‚ where their futures are jeopardized. These children ages 5 to 17 never get to go to school or have a good life‚ they work to stay alive or they work by force. Nobody in these regions of the world really care or try to stop what is happening to these children. Only 14.3% of all child labor cases ended in convictions in
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