How soldiers deal with the job of killing
St Pauls poppy installation remembers child soldiers
An installation of poppies in St Paul's Cathedral marks the continued involvement of children in war, despite its practice being declared illegal by the UN.
High drop out rate and imprisonment of teenage soldiers calls MoD policy into question
High drop-out rate of teenage soldiers hides unfair detention of some young recruits detained in military prisons for attempting to leave
MPs criticise Ministry of Defence for continuing to send children to war
The MoD is criticised for lowering standards since WW1 and despite thousands of planned redundancies, it still recruiting children at twice the cost of adults.
Remembering the meaning of remembrance
UK sent ‘children’ to Iraq and Afghanistan despite Government ban
The children were sent to 'operational theatres' between April 2008 and March 2010. Campaigners against use of child soldiers demand ministers end 'outdated practice'.
Imprisoned Navy conscientious objector to appeal conviction in High Court
ForcesWatch press release
Navy medic Michael Lyons, a conscientious objector convicted of disobedience, who was detained in July, stripped of his rank and dismissed from the service, will be at the High Court 13 October to appeal his conviction. A recent European ruling recognises conscientious objection for first time as human right.
European Court of Human Rights affirms the right to conscientious objection to military service
War Resisters International
The European Court of Human Rights, in a ground-breaking judgment in the case of Bayatyan v. Armenia, has ruled that states have a duty to respect individuals’ right to conscientious objection to military service as part of their obligation to respect the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion set out in Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights.