child soldiers
Armed underage combatants
Child soldiers are minors recruited or forced into armed conflict, typically under age eighteen.
They may serve as fighters, spies, messengers, or in other roles supporting military operations.
The term carries strong connotations of exploitation and human rights abuse: The rebel group was condemned for its use of child soldiers.
International law prohibits recruiting children into armed forces.
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- war crimesIllegal acts during conflict
- trauma recoveryRegaining stability after damage
- armed forcesNation's combined military services
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
war · family reunification · forced displacement · youth · refugee camps · insurgency · demobilization · conscription · rebel groups · Uganda · human trafficking · conflict zones · small arms · human rights · UNICEF · post-war recovery · guerrilla · Africa
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- humanitarian aidaid, aid organizations, aid workers, disaster relief, aid agencies
- warcombat, warfare, battle scenes, battles, soldiers
- children's rightsright to education, parental care, custody rights, education rights, health rights
- exploitationexploit, predatory, sex trafficking, take advantage, human trafficking
- rights abusestorture, ethnic cleansing, arbitrary detention, political prisoners, disappearances
child soldiersregular army
Nation's permanent military force
standing army · mercenaries · veterans · commissioned officers
child soldiersUN peacekeepers
International soldiers maintaining ceasefires
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