The minimum age of recruitment into the military should be 18 years. At present, under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is 15 years. The change could be achieved through the adoption of an Optional Protocol to the Convention. Existing...
The results of a participatory action research project to identify how best to help migrant children deal with the problems they face. Over the past ten years, the borders between China, Myanmar and Thailand have seen the largest flow of migrants...
This paper was prepared as a contribution to the UN Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children (the “Machel” study). It describes the psychosocial effects of armed conflict on children and outlines principles that should be...