Over 300,000 child soldiers are fighting in conflicts around the world. Children are uniquely vulnerable to recruitment due to their immaturity and are easily manipulated into violence. Once recruited, they often face brutal treatment and are forced to commit atrocities. Two testimonials describe children being forced to watch their brothers killed for refusing to join an insurgent group, and a girl being given as a wife to a soldier and facing danger after he died. The document calls for actions like signing a petition to address the serious problem of child soldiers.
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ABSTRACT
Since 1992 distance education (DE), especially e-learning, has found wider usage in the field of
higher, formal and vocational education in Mongolia as available technologies, including the Internet,
have greatly facilitated teaching and learning methods. In recent years some NGOs and higher education
institutions have been collaborating with foreign partners in developing and delivering quality e-learning
programmes in Mongolia. This paper will discuss how an NGO, Mongolian e-Knowledge (MeK) has
assured the quality of its e-learning development and delivery. It will look at the MeK’s quality assurance
(QA) mechanism, analyze various QA measures taken during the e-learning process, and discuss issues
and challenges of QA in e-learning.
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The report, by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict and UNICEF, highlights the changing and devastating impact of conflicts on children. It notes that advances have been made in protecting children from war crimes such as unlawful recruitment by armed forces and groups and sexual violence. It also urges the international community to take concrete actions to stop abuses of children in armed conflict.
Malala's UN Speech. I would like to present this slide to my students. Then they will watch the video. Then I will begin a discussion on the subject. This will be a topic of interest to them. There can be heated arguments pro and against. So I can add some life to my classes. This, I believe, will help me in improving the student invikvement and thus help in developing their communication skills, presentation skills and ;public speaking skills, Malala,
1. The Problem of
Child Soldiers
By Allison Reilly
March 3rd, 2008
Amnesty International
2. The Basics
Anyone under the age of 18 who is
involved militarily in conflict
300,000 child soldiers fighting in
conflicts around the world
Child Soldiers in the DRC
3. Yes, It is a Big Deal
Uniquely vulnerable to military recruitment
because of emotional and physical
immaturity
Easily manipulated and drawn into
violence that they are too young to resist
or understand
Technological advances in weaponry and
proliferation have contributed to the
increased use of child soldiers
Lightweight automatic weapons can be
used by children as easily as adults
4. Yes, It is a Big Deal
Most likely to become child soldiers if they
are poor, separated from their families,
displaced from their homes, living in a
combat zone or have limited access to
education
Many join because of economic or social
pressure, or because they believe that the
group will offer food or security.
Others are forcibly recruited, "press-
ganged" or abducted by armed groups.
5. Yes, It is a Big Deal
In some countries, like Nepal, Sri Lanka and
Uganda, a third or more of the child soldiers
were reported to be girls. In some conflicts, girls
may be raped, or given to military commanders
as "wives
May serve as porters, cooks, guards,
messengers or spies
Many are pressed into combat - forced to the
front lines or sent into minefields ahead of older
troops
Sometimes forced to commit atrocities against
their own family or neighbors.
6. Testimonials
“Early on when my brothers and I were
captured, the LRA explained to us that all
five brothers couldn’t serve in the LRA
because we would not perform well. So
they tied up my two younger brothers and
invited us to watch. Then they beat them
with sticks until [they] died. They told us it
would give us strength to fight. My
youngest brother was nine years old.”
- Martin, recruited by the Lord’s
Resistance Army in Uganda at age twelve
7. Testimonials
"When the mayi-mayi attacked my village, we all ran away.
..the soldiers captured all the girls, even the very young.
Once with the soldiers, you were forced to "marry" one of
the soldiers…If you refused, they would kill you... My
"husband" did not beat me too often. ..But one day, he was
killed in an attack. I felt I was in danger and I should leave.
On the way, as I was pregnant, I had my baby. I was alone
in the bush, without medication. I still have pain from this.
Then I went to the village of my "husband", but his parents
rejected me and my child, after taking all my belongings.
They blamed me for his death. I wanted to go to my home,
but it is so far away, I was afraid the mayi-mayi would find
me and capture me again."
-Jasime, from DRC, was recruited in June 2002 by an
insurgent group (mayi-mayi) in South-Kivu, when she was
12. She is now 16 and has a four-month-old baby
9. What Has Been Done
Geneva Conventions
Optional Protocol to the Convention
on the Rights of the Child on the
Involvement of Children in Armed
Conflict
10. What You Can Do
Sign the Petition!
Available both here and at SLAMnesty
Action Appeal!
Write a letter to the Russian government
Donate!
Amnesty International or Child Soldier
Coalition Trust
Atlas Week Event!