Children’s rights groups call on MoD to stop recruiting children
Child Soldiers International
An open letter to the Ministry of Defence from national children’s organisations and rights groups calls on them to stop recruiting 16 and 17 year olds into the armed forces. The letter has been made public on the same day that the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child begins its periodic examination of the UK’s record on child rights. In 2008, the UN urged the UK to raise the enlistment age to 18.
The UN, child rights and the UK military
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5 Soldiers: The Body is the Frontline.
Lauren Bryden & Poppy Kohner, from Resist Militarism
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The British Army should stop recruiting 16-year-olds
Chatham House
Scottish voices on armed forces visits to schools
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Bringing it up to date: 100 years on from the First World War
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This article, summarising ForcesWatch work, was first published on the White Feather Diaries website.
Scotland petition about armed forces in schools is launched amid cadets row
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Three Days on the Western Front: A student’s experience of a school trip to the First World War battlefields
Written and offered to ForcesWatch by Joe Brydon, who was in Year 13 at an academy school in Bristol at the time of the trip.
New Deal Needed on Military Visits to Scotland’s Schools
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