is impossible to estimate accurately the number of child soldiers. There are tens of thousands in all regions of the world.The Alboan organizations, Amnesty International, Entreculturas Commitment Foundation, Save the Children and the Jesuit Refugee Service mobilize against the use of child soldiers to report serious human rights violations they are subjected daily children in many countries.
Thousands of child soldiers have been released from fighting forces, whether governmental or insurgent groups after the peace accords and demobilization and reintegration in Afghanistan, Burundi, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Republic Congo, southern Sudan and other countries. However, during these years have occurred, have resumed or intensified conflict in countries including Chad, Iraq, Central African Republic, Somalia and Sudan (Darfur), increasing in these places the recruitment of minors.
Children and young soldiers have been subjected to extreme , where some have witnessed the murder of their families or have been used as instruments to commit atrocities. Many have been victims of abuse, rape and other forms of forced sexuality, including "marriage" with the combatants in the case of girls. On numerous occasions have been drugged to overcome the fear of the opponent, used as cannon fodder, forced to carry out looting, rape or maul people.
The organizations call upon States that have not yet done so to ratify the Optional Protocol the Convention on the Rights of the Child sovereign participation of children in armed conflict. This is the tool most important legal protection for children in conflict.
The Protocol is an essential tool to ensure that children are not used in armed conflict. increases to 18 the minimum age for direct participation in hostilities , compared with the previous minimum age of 15 years in the Convention on the Rights of the child and the child. It also obliges States Parties to enforce strict rules where not met.
That no child under 18 is recruited or used in armed forces or armed groups , since association with armed forces deprives children of their rights and their childhood to be devastating physical and psychological impact that causes them .
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