The+status+of+child+soldiers+in+the+Geneva+Convention

The United Nations issued the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959, guaranteeing the right to a name, a nationality, and the right to be raised in a peaceful environment. In 1974 the international community acknowledged the need to protect women and children in civilian roles in the Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict. This would lead to the 1977 Geneva Protocols, but again, did little to substantially change the plight of soldiers under the age of 18. However, in 1989 the Convention on the Rights of the Child came into existence. Finally the international community was attempting to deal with the issue of child soldiers, but it only amounted to a strong suggestion that children under 15 not be involved in war. Iraq believes, that the UN must address this issue more powerfully, not merely requesting that children not be used as tool of war, but elevating the law in the Geneva Convention. Child soldiers should by no means be used in any conflicts, and their use, should be considered a direct infringement to the Geneva Convention. Child warfare must be approached more directly, and strictly.


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==  1. Demands that the status of child soldiers in the Geneva Convention be elevated through but not limited to: ==  a.  Change in the current laws involved with the child fighting, rather than requesting their omission, it must be forbidden.  b.  Re-debate o n current laws and regulations. ==  2. Urges the UN member nations to enforce sanctions, and refuse aid to nations practicing child warfare, through but not limited to: ==  a.  Promotion of anti-child warfare laws, giving nations time to change their current actions. ==  3. Requests that laws passed by the Geneva Convention, are followed strictly, through but not limited to: ==  a.  Abidance to the sanction law  b.  UN promotion against child warfare