NationStates Jolt Archive

EDIT: Here is the resolution as it reads after corrections:

[quote="I"]Thousands of children continue to be abducted to serve as soldiers, spies, messengers, servants and sexual slaves with armed forces and groups. Poverty, propaganda and ideology also continue to drive the involvement of children in many conflict areas. Children make obedient and cheap soldiers capable of instilling terror in civilians and opposing forces alike. Those who are forced to fight are generally poor, illiterate, and from rural zones.

Therefore our nation proposes that all UN nations partake in the following measures to ban child soldiers:

A. The banning of conscripting children into any national armed services.

B. Prevention: addressing root causes and preventing cross-border abduction and human trafficking.

C. Demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers and those currently serving in the midst of conflict: avoiding the risk of re-recruitment.

We also urge all parties in armed conflicts to take special measures to protect children, in particular girls, from rape and other forms of sexual abuse and gender-based violence in situations of armed conflict and to take into account the special needs of the child throughout armed conflicts and their aftermath, including in the delivery of humanitarian assistance, and to do thier utmost to protect child refugees.

This resolution shall also condemn and ban attacks on places that usually have a significant presence of children, such as schools and hospitals, and calls on all parties concerned to put an immediate end to such practices.

National legislature may retain the right to dictate the age at which a human being ceases to be officially classed as a child, but it shall be no lower than 16 for the purposes of the present resolution.[quote]

Opinions?

Unfortuantely, Child soldiers are much more useful to us in the field, if only working as fodder, and nothing else. The use of child soldiers opens up an array of possibilities, though most of them involve using the children as a distraction, or to draw off opposing forces.

It is my belief, as leader of The Dominion of Robness, that not only should consricpting child soldiers be allowed, it should be enforced. The children will recieve the education they need during basic training, and the ones who survive will be strong, strong enough to lead the world into a new era. Use the children to enforce the rule and influence of the strong nations, and they will strike fear into the weak ones, kneeling them.

You force children to die! That is barbaric!

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What about children who take up arms in defense of their homes? What about children who voluntarily decide to serve in military forces? Why should they be prevented from doing so?

What about children who take up arms in defense of their homes? What about children who voluntarily decide to serve in military forces? Why should they be prevented from doing so?

Look up the word conscription. If they volunteer, well, it's their right to do so. And where does it say they would be banned from protecting their homes?

I don't know many children who would willingly go into combat.

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This is a fine idea, truly international in nature, and kudos for bringing it up. However, it needs a rewrite. Some suggestions:What's the difference between
:arrow: A. Prevention: addressing root causes and preventing cross-border abduction and human trafficking.
and
:arrow: D. Prevention: addressing root causes and preventing cross-border abduction and trafficking.

B and C seem to be one basic idea. Why not combine them?
E should be your lead-off phrase, as it is the heart of the problem.

There are a number of superfluous and limiting phrases that could come out without hurting this in any way. A few examples for removal in bold:

civilians and opposing forces alike. Those who are forced to fight are generally poor, illiterate, and from rural zones.

A. Prevention: addressing root causes and [P]reventing cross-border abduction and human trafficking

take special measures to protect children, in particular girls,Again, this is a fine proposal that would likely pass easily if presented properly. We really wish that proposal writers would bring their ideas to the UN before posting them to get the valuable (and not particularly valuable) criticism and support. As currently written, Frisbeeteria would not Approve it for a vote.

I'm all for outlawing child soldiers- But then, my country is fairly peaceful anyway.

I think we should make it a mandatory thing to concript child soldiers, and make them a vital and integrated part of the army.
the reasoning is clear to any parent wanting to get the a trip moving.
this will prevent wars in several ways: the army will have to stop every fifteen minutes for a bathroom break. the children are not very good at following orders. ADD. who wants to send every child in the nation to war?
See? the idea of mandatory child conscription speaks for itself.

Catholic Europe supports this resoltuion. Children are too young and innocent to be sent to murder others in a war that they have nothing to do with, thus banning child soldiers would stop this evil practice.

Catholic Europe supports this resoltuion. Children are too young and innocent to be sent to murder others in a war that they have nothing to do with, thus banning child soldiers would stop this evil practice.


I would have to agree, so yes i will support it when i search the U.N lists

i too doone of dooneville think that child soldiers should be banned...war is bad enough but putting kids to war thats a disgrace it makes me sick that some people think like that we should ban child soldiers unless they are 18 or over...



yours disgustedly,
DOONE DEAN,EMPEROR OF DOONEVILLE&DOONEVILLE5,UN MEMBER,SUPERSTAR.

We of the Grand Atoll wholeheartedly support this proposal. It is the most rational resolution to be proposed in the UN in a long time. It is international in scope and effect, and it places no inappropriate restriction on national sovereignty.

If the proposal is rewritten to disallow children from joing the forces, I'll vote for the it. However, I was also thinking that it might be proposed that a child MAY be able to join if he or she wants to and not be forced to join. Despite my own opinion, I still believe a child shouldn't be able to join combat. There are some exceptions.

Anyhow, I'd still vote for it.

The Rogue Nation of Greenspoint sees merit in this proposal, but we agree with our esteemed colleague from Frisbeeteria regarding a necessary re-write. We endorse his proposed revisions and would support this proposal were they to be implemented.

As the proposal stands we could not support it.

James Moehlman
Asst. Manager ico U.N. Affairs

Thankyou all for your opinions and contributions, I have re-worded the resolution and it now reads as such. Since many children under 16 would think war is going to be all fun and games, until the reality of the situation sets in, when they'd probably wonder why any sane adult would allow them to put themselves in that situation in the first place, under this resolution children are not allowed to volunteer themselves up for military service.

Thousands of children continue to be abducted to serve as soldiers, spies, messengers, servants and sexual slaves with armed forces and groups. Poverty, propaganda and ideology also continue to drive the involvement of children in many conflict areas. Children make obedient and cheap soldiers capable of instilling terror in civilians and opposing forces alike. Those who are forced to fight are generally poor, illiterate, and from rural zones.

Therefore our nation proposes that all UN nations partake in the following measures to ban child soldiers:

A. The banning of conscripting children into any national armed services.

B. Prevention: addressing root causes and preventing cross-border abduction and human trafficking.

C. Demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers and those currently serving in the midst of conflict: avoiding the risk of re-recruitment.

We also urge all parties in armed conflicts to take special measures to protect children, in particular girls, from rape and other forms of sexual abuse and gender-based violence in situations of armed conflict and to take into account the special needs of the child throughout armed conflicts and their aftermath, including in the delivery of humanitarian assistance, and to do thier utmost to protect child refugees.

This resolution shall also condemn and ban attacks on places that usually have a significant presence of children, such as schools and hospitals, and calls on all parties concerned to put an immediate end to such practices.

National legislature may retain the right to dictate the age at which a human being ceases to be officially classed as a child, but it shall be no lower than 16 for the purposes of the present resolution.

Children cost less to feed. It's a simple fact. thay are also more obedient once you put fear in them.

Children make great spies and assassins because there are few things that can look more innocent than a child.

They also make small targets on the battlefield AND warriors trained from a young age, if they survive, become EXCEPTIONAL warriors later in life.

Yes, but it's also barbaric and inhumane.

Catholic Europe supports this resoltuion. Children are too young and innocent to be sent to murder others in a war that they have nothing to do with, thus banning child soldiers would stop this evil practice.


I would have to agree, so yes i will support it when i search the U.N lists
I think this is one of those proposal where it just has to reach quorum.

Hopefully this excellent resolution will reach quorum, and the barbaric act of sending young children to fight in wars in which they often have no idean what they are actually fighting for will be outlawed.

Children cost less to feed. It's a simple fact. thay are also more obedient once you put fear in them.

Children make great spies and assassins because there are few things that can look more innocent than a child.

They also make small targets on the battlefield AND warriors trained from a young age, if they survive, become EXCEPTIONAL warriors later in life.

How can you justify sending small children on a battlefield to their death, regardless of the fact that they will 'supposedly' become excellent warriors.

There is no justification for it.

The Commonwealth of Aruglia will not support this resolution in its current form. The reason being, each nation has its own definition of adulthood; in Aruglia it is 16, and in some countries it is as high as 25. We believe that each nation should be allowed to define adulthood of itself, and that those who are not considered adults should be free from conscription. If this resolution were to be passed, Aruglia would be denied the military service, in time of need, from thousands of what she considers full-fledged adult citizens.

The Commonwealth of Aruglia will not support this resolution in its current form. The reason being, each nation has its own definition of adulthood; in Aruglia it is 16, and in some countries it is as high as 25. We believe that each nation should be allowed to define adulthood of itself, and that those who are not considered adults should be free from conscription. If this resolution were to be passed, Aruglia would be denied the military service, in time of need, from thousands of what she considers full-fledged adult citizens.

You have obviously not read the revised and ammended proposal properly. If you had taken the time to do that before you critised it unfairly, you'd have noticed this:

National legislature may retain the right to dictate the age at which a human being ceases to be officially classed as a child, but it shall be no lower than 16 for the purposes of the present resolution.

I don't know many children who would willingly go into combat.

During the American Civil War, many boys on both side volunteered to serve in their armies.

I don't know many children who would willingly go into combat.

During the American Civil War, many boys on both side volunteered to serve in their armies.

I apologize. While that does neatly solve the specific objection as it pertains to Aruglia, we do not think it is within the purview of the UN to dictate that the age must be 16, or anything else, for that matter. We do not think it immoral, per se, for 14 or 15 year olds to serve in the army if that is the age a country has set as adulthood. We must remember that tradition and laws vary immensely as to the onset of adulthood; for example, the Jewish religion admits people into adulthood at 13. If that is the law or tradition of a particular member nation, then they should be allowed to continue it.

My nation's policy states clearly that children shall only be admitted into military school under the permission of the childs gardians or unruly juvilie crime. The military is a great place to develop a struggling child in these troubled times. However we do tend to stray away form enlisting these children into our army. Although many tend to join our army by their own will.

We do not think it immoral, per se, for 14 or 15 year olds to serve in the army if that is the age a country has set as adulthood.
Remember, this argument concerns conscript armies. There is nothing in this proposal to prohibit volunteers from serving at whatever age a nation deems appropriate.

I apologize. While that does neatly solve the specific objection as it pertains to Aruglia, we do not think it is within the purview of the UN to dictate that the age must be 16, or anything else, for that matter. We do not think it immoral, per se, for 14 or 15 year olds to serve in the army if that is the age a country has set as adulthood. We must remember that tradition and laws vary immensely as to the onset of adulthood; for example, the Jewish religion admits people into adulthood at 13. If that is the law or tradition of a particular member nation, then they should be allowed to continue it.

I'm glad we cleared it up. However, I had to draw the line at some point. Remember, the legal age of 16 is specific this resolution, and will not affect any other national legislature.

Yes, well, what I meant was, say one of our member states were a Jewish theocracy (wouldn't surprise me if there were at least one). If they want to declare 13-year-olds legal adults, and give them all the priviledges that go along with it, then they should be able to expect that those 13-year-olds will serve in the army, if called. However, we realize that a line had to be drawn, so I will support this legislation unless I hear some coherent objection to it. I wonder, though, if this should have any enforcement guidelines?

Unfortuantely, Child soldiers are much more useful to us in the field, if only working as fodder, and nothing else. The use of child soldiers opens up an array of possibilities, though most of them involve using the children as a distraction, or to draw off opposing forces.

It is my belief, as leader of The Dominion of Robness, that not only should consricpting child soldiers be allowed, it should be enforced. The children will recieve the education they need during basic training, and the ones who survive will be strong, strong enough to lead the world into a new era. Use the children to enforce the rule and influence of the strong nations, and they will strike fear into the weak ones, kneeling them.

The people of the Confederation of Mikitivity (CoM) are SHOCKED to hear a United Nations member actively endorsing a national "Suicide Commando" tactics. While the tactic is useful for oppressed people, there is no reason a defensive force should need to use any human being as a distraction!

On the behalf of my people, WHY would a nation train its children to be used as decoys??!!??

Why not continue to practice universal conscription (something to which CoM) has found very benefial, but to treat the conscription as a means for the state to education the population. In others, don't arm your children but education them.

As for the general position on conscripting children, CoM is still undecided if the UN really should have a saying in differentiating between children and adults. Certainly children in CoM are treated as wards of the state, but this means they are to be protected and cherished. Not put in uniforms and taught how to carry explosives.

yes, sending kids to near-certain death or lifelong trauma is bad, and i'm all for banning it. problem: in general children aren't allowed into armies anyway. they're too small, too flimsy, too... expendable. and if your military strategy relies on having a team that can be killed and little else, you'd get your ass crushed in no time. so the sort of formal armies that feature children are the ones in extremely extenuating circumstances-- eg hitler is at the gates of moscow, the russians are at the gates of berlin, or else they're hardcore guerilla gangs, clans, etc etc etc (as in many parts of africa and some parts of asia, etc). in the one case, civil law and international law have already been blown to the winds, because it's a total war and the only thing people are thinking about is total annihilation. in the other case, the infrastructure for upholding any sort of legal system is absent altogether, and whether or not it's illegal is somewhat irrelevant. so essentially the only scope of this proposal is that you can't draft kids during peacetime. which might miff a dictator or two, but so what-- they're the ones who don't follow international rules anyway.

what do people think?

Unfortuantely, Child soldiers are much more useful to us in the field, if only working as fodder, and nothing else. The use of child soldiers opens up an array of possibilities, though most of them involve using the children as a distraction, or to draw off opposing forces.

It is my belief, as leader of The Dominion of Robness, that not only should consricpting child soldiers be allowed, it should be enforced. The children will recieve the education they need during basic training, and the ones who survive will be strong, strong enough to lead the world into a new era. Use the children to enforce the rule and influence of the strong nations, and they will strike fear into the weak ones, kneeling them. I do believe that you are thinking about the novel Ender's Game. Unfortunately, this is not a sci-fi book. This is real life. Children do not fight in the battlefeild. They can be weak physically and be strong mentally, allowing them to be killed by a shot in the chest when they could have been the leaders that your country needed from all along. They can, however, receive a top-of-the-rate education in the millitary, and then, MAYBE, if they want to, join the military as officers and searve their country, providing that they chose to themselves. And if you are using children as distractions, then you cant be much better than Hitler or Stalin.

Reporter: Master Leprechaun, any comments on sending human children to war?
ML: No comment

Reporter: Is it true you send them to war?

ML: (Angerily) *drags reporter behind a building and comes out, and lets out a nice big burp*

You have our support for this proposal. Thank you for your hard work.

John Boone
Speaker for Welfare
Community of Ecopoeia

Catholic Europe supports this resoltuion. Children are too young and innocent to be sent to murder others in a war that they have nothing to do with, thus banning child soldiers would stop this evil practice.

The Purisgard Theocracy agrees with the above statement. Children are too young and innocent, they should be sent to school and educated and safe not sent to war and be exposed to danger.

What about children who take up arms in defense of their homes? What about children who voluntarily decide to serve in military forces? Why should they be prevented from doing so?
If the children are defending their home in the millitary, then they don't know what they're doing. Let them grow up and THEN decide whether or not they will fight.

These children that you are talking about, they cant know the risks! They only know what their parents tell them, or what their peers tell them. If they dont know what they've gotten themselves into, once they DO realize that this isnt Kitty Park, will you let them leave? Or will you force them to stay, saying that "They wanted it, now they have it," or something like that?

If I controlled a real nation, I would never allow something like this to go on, oh no, not if I knew about it.

No further comment.

yes, sending kids to near-certain death or lifelong trauma is bad, and i'm all for banning it. problem: in general children aren't allowed into armies anyway. they're too small, too flimsy, too... expendable. and if your military strategy relies on having a team that can be killed and little else, you'd get your ass crushed in no time. so the sort of formal armies that feature children are the ones in extremely extenuating circumstances-- eg hitler is at the gates of moscow, the russians are at the gates of berlin, or else they're hardcore guerilla gangs, clans, etc etc etc (as in many parts of africa and some parts of asia, etc). in the one case, civil law and international law have already been blown to the winds, because it's a total war and the only thing people are thinking about is total annihilation. in the other case, the infrastructure for upholding any sort of legal system is absent altogether, and whether or not it's illegal is somewhat irrelevant. so essentially the only scope of this proposal is that you can't draft kids during peacetime. which might miff a dictator or two, but so what-- they're the ones who don't follow international rules anyway.

what do people think?
Something we all need to learn.

Children have proven in the past to be decisive factors in resolutions and results of conflict and military strategem - why not continue this? Children ought to have instilled in them a sense of militarism and discipline in their personality, traits that can be later applied throughout life. Though entering children into direct combat may be dishonorable, the retention of martial-like qualities throughout their lives is key to their success in life.

Unfortuantely, Child soldiers are much more useful to us in the field, if only working as fodder, and nothing else. The use of child soldiers opens up an array of possibilities, though most of them involve using the children as a distraction, or to draw off opposing forces.

It is my belief, as leader of The Dominion of Robness, that not only should consricpting child soldiers be allowed, it should be enforced. The children will recieve the education they need during basic training, and the ones who survive will be strong, strong enough to lead the world into a new era. Use the children to enforce the rule and influence of the strong nations, and they will strike fear into the weak ones, kneeling them.

The people of the Confederation of Mikitivity (CoM) are SHOCKED to hear a United Nations member actively endorsing a national "Suicide Commando" tactics. While the tactic is useful for oppressed people, there is no reason a defensive force should need to use any human being as a distraction!

On the behalf of my people, WHY would a nation train its children to be used as decoys??!!??

Why not continue to practice universal conscription (something to which CoM) has found very benefial, but to treat the conscription as a means for the state to education the population. In others, don't arm your children but education them.

As for the general position on conscripting children, CoM is still undecided if the UN really should have a saying in differentiating between children and adults. Certainly children in CoM are treated as wards of the state, but this means they are to be protected and cherished. Not put in uniforms and taught how to carry explosives.
I know that all I am doing is repeating what others have been saying all along, but I hope that no one is ignoring me for that reason.

And I agree strongly with the CoM as well as anyone else supporting this cause.

Unfortuantely, Child soldiers are much more useful to us in the field, if only working as fodder, and nothing else. The use of child soldiers opens up an array of possibilities, though most of them involve using the children as a distraction, or to draw off opposing forces.

It is my belief, as leader of The Dominion of Robness, that not only should consricpting child soldiers be allowed, it should be enforced. The children will recieve the education they need during basic training, and the ones who survive will be strong, strong enough to lead the world into a new era. Use the children to enforce the rule and influence of the strong nations, and they will strike fear into the weak ones, kneeling them.

The people of the Confederation of Mikitivity (CoM) are SHOCKED to hear a United Nations member actively endorsing a national "Suicide Commando" tactics. While the tactic is useful for oppressed people, there is no reason a defensive force should need to use any human being as a distraction!

On the behalf of my people, WHY would a nation train its children to be used as decoys??!!??

Why not continue to practice universal conscription (something to which CoM) has found very benefial, but to treat the conscription as a means for the state to education the population. In others, don't arm your children but education them.

As for the general position on conscripting children, CoM is still undecided if the UN really should have a saying in differentiating between children and adults. Certainly children in CoM are treated as wards of the state, but this means they are to be protected and cherished. Not put in uniforms and taught how to carry explosives.
I know that all I am doing is repeating what others have been saying all along, but I hope that no one is ignoring me for that reason.

And I agree strongly with the CoM as well as anyone else supporting this cause.

Compulsary military service, and the education in military matters, is an important social step in our nation. As a militaristic, nationalist state we reserve the right to specify our own guidelines, which currently fall at 16. we will not tolerate a UN resolution wich dictates which of our own citizens are to be part of our own armed forces. 18 is far too high an age, 16 is liberal in the view of many of my country-men. Are we seriously to say that a citizen below this age may debate on the furture of the country, influence its political process, but not help fight its wars? that is absurd.

An improved proposal has been submitted, catagory: Human Rights.

It hopefully will address concerns nations have expressed. It reads as such:

Thousands of children continue to be abducted to serve as soldiers, spies, messengers, servants and sexual slaves with armed forces and groups. Poverty, propaganda and ideology also continue to drive the involvement of children in many conflict areas. Children make obedient and cheap soldiers capable of instilling terror in civilians and opposing forces alike. Those who are forced to fight are generally poor, illiterate, and from rural zones.

Therefore our nation proposes that all UN nations partake in the following measures to ban child soldiers:

A. The banning of conscripting children into any national armed services.

B. Prevention: addressing root causes and preventing cross-border abduction and human trafficking.

C. Demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers and those currently serving in the midst of conflict: avoiding the risk of re-recruitment.

We also urge all parties in armed conflicts to take special measures to protect children, in particular girls, from rape and other forms of sexual abuse and gender-based violence in situations of armed conflict and to take into account the special needs of the child throughout armed conflicts and their aftermath, including in the delivery of humanitarian assistance, and to do thier utmost to protect child refugees.

This resolution shall also condemn and ban attacks on places that usually have a significant presence of children, such as schools and hospitals, and calls on all parties concerned to put an immediate end to such practices.

National legislature may retain the right to dictate the age at which a human being ceases to be officially classed as a child, but it shall be no lower than 16 for the purposes of the present resolution.

Any opinions on the improved version?

The amended proposal has been put to the Ecopoeian public and we can confirm it meets our approval.

If the proposal were to fail within the UN (and we sincerely hope this isn't to be the case), we will still adopt it in our own constitution.

Many thanks
John Boone
Speaker for Welfare

The empiric provences view this proposal as much more sensible, and we appreciate sydia diligence on this important issue. However, we would still wish the classification of 'child' to be one below the age of 16, not below the age of 18, and we could only support a proposal with the former definition clearly in place.

seems more like a "child protection act," what's it titled?

seems more like a "child protection act," what's it titled?
It IS a child protection act. Do you have sweat in your eyes? The age is to be set because we don't want our children, teens, young people, whatever you want to call them, to be killed off, leaving that particular nation will elders and animals. If all the youth is destroyed, then what do you have? You have nothing. Not a thing, because then no one is able to reproduce and repopulate our country. What does the government have to rule over then? Not as if you can't figure it out by now.

The point was the proposal is labled as "Ban Child Soldiers" and then goes on to legislate on issues beyond that scope. This proposal is mislabeled, that was the question. Perhaps the sweat is in your own eyes?

@ Red Empiric provences:- Read last para, retains national legislature's rights.

@ Illaria:- All the issues relate to children in war.

I actually wrote much more than this in response, but the damned server crashed and I'm in a hurry.

Well, kids do make good spies, as who is gonna suspect a kid is following him? However, our nation has a history of allowing young people to work in government and business, which does cause a few faintings by old geezers who are not used to being told the unvarnished truth by 13-year-olds. Our military does not specifically allow for children under 16 to serve, but the fact that every kid over 5 has mandatory kendo and fencing classes in PE more than make up for it. So, we support this resolution.

Even our President is a 'mere' boy at 18, and his staff mostly younger. A quarter of the Senate are also kids. Just a little tidbit of our nation.

An improved proposal has been submitted, catagory: Human Rights.

It hopefully will address concerns nations have expressed. It reads as such:


It looks wonderful!

Illaria has no further objection to this proposal

The Community of Zorfoxia's leader applauds this proposal. He begs forgiveness if it has been said but it should be noted what age a child is; twenty and under seems right.

a child, is that some one under 18?

a child, is that some one under 18?

If there is any confusion as to when the legal age of an adult is: read the last paragraph of the resolution.

It states that national legislature retains the right to decide when a child is legally classified an adult for this resolution, but it may be no lower than 16. Meaning that if a nation's ideology is that human beings are legally considered children until 21, the resolution applies to everybody under 21.

It also states the age issue applies only to the terms in this issue - if you think 15 year olds should be able to drink/vote/whatever, so be it. The resolution will have no effect on any other legislation where the age of adulthood is involved.

I hope this clears things up.

Oh, my, child soldiers? What is it all coming to?

I've tagged a bit more on military academies:



Ban Child Soldiers
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights Strength: Strong Proposed by: Sydia
Description: Thousands of children continue to be abducted to serve as soldiers, spies, messengers, servants and sexual slaves with armed forces and groups. Poverty, propaganda and ideology also continue to drive the involvement of children in many conflict areas. Children make obedient and cheap soldiers capable of instilling terror in civilians and opposing forces alike. Those who are forced to fight are generally poor, illiterate, and from rural zones.

Therefore our nation proposes that all UN nations partake in the following measures to ban child soldiers:

A. The banning of conscripting children into any national armed services.

B. Prevention: addressing root causes and preventing cross-border abduction and human trafficking.

C. Demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers and those currently serving in the midst of conflict: avoiding the risk of re-recruitment.

We also urge all parties in armed conflicts to take special measures to protect children, in particular girls, from rape and other forms of sexual abuse and gender-based violence in situations of armed conflict and to take into account the special needs of the child throughout armed conflicts and their aftermath, including in the delivery of humanitarian assistance, and to do their utmost to protect child refugees.

This resolution shall also condemn and ban attacks on places that usually have a significant presence of children, such as schools and hospitals, and calls on all parties concerned to put an immediate end to such practices.

This resolution shall not infringe on training children in military academies, although employing said children into combat zones is strictly prohibited.

National legislature may retain the right to dictate the age at which a human being ceases to be officially classed as a child, but it shall be no lower than 16 for the purposes of the present resolution.

Children can barely carry weapons like adults can! Plus they will have to run with them. The only good things about having kids in the military is the morale they will have on the adults.