Child soldiers: Law, politics and practice

International Journal of Children's Rights

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-128

  Brett, Rachel ^a  

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EID: 67650136895     PISSN: 09275568     EISSN: 15718182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157181896X00374     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. For example, Article 4 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which permits states to derogate from some of their obligations in times of emergency "provided that such measures are not inconsistent with their other obligations under international law ..".
2. Argentina, Austria, Colombia, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Uruguay.
3. Thomas Hammarberg, "the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child-and How to Make It Work", Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 1, February 1990), pp. 97-105, p. 101.
4. Rachel Brett: Report on the Working Group to draft an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on participation of children in armed conflict (Geneva: Quaker UN Office, 1994).
5. UNHCR contained in UN DocumentE/CN.4/1996/WG.13/2Add.1.
6. Van Bueren, International Documents on Children, 1993, Kluwer at 33. Ibid. See UN Document CRC/C/10 of 13 October 1992.
7. Committee on the Rights of the Child, Report on the third session (Geneva, 11-29 January 1993), UN Document CROC/16 of 5 March 1993, pp. 36-37.
8. Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (June 1993), in UN Document A/CONF. 157/23, para. 50.
9. This is one of the Sub-Groups of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the successor to the NGO Group so active in the drafting of the CRC itself.
10. Report on the 1994 Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights (Geneva: Quaker UN Office, 1994).
11. Rachel Brett: Report on the Working Group to draft an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on participation of children in armed conflict (Geneva: Quaker UN Office, 1994).
12. The joint NGO response to the draft produced by the first session of the Working Group is contained in UN Document E/CN.4/1996/WG.13/2.
13. Resolution 14, Council of Delegates, November 1991.
14. Guy Goodwin-Gill and Ilene Cohn: Child Soldiers (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
15. The text of the Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts appears as an Annex to the Report of the Working Group in UN Document E/CN.4/1995/96. According to standard UN practice, portions of the text not yet agreed and competing texts appear in square brackets.
16. Guu Goodwin-Gill and Ilene Cohn: Child Soldiers (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
17. II fact, some 35 percent of British recruits are under 18 years of age.
18. The revelation that Nigeria considers its military schools to be part of the armed forces and subject to military discipline, and that 12 years is the minimum age for entry, raises questions about their compliance with Article 38 of the CRC.