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Hey sergeant, leave them kids alone
05/09/2011
Peace News
In July ForcesWatch launched the Military Out of Schools campaign. Speakers Oskar Castro, a US activist in countering military recruitment, and Ben Griffin, ex-forces and the founder of fledgling Veterans for Peace UK, discussed how young people are militarised and what can be done about it.
Teachers reject ‘Army propaganda’
08/07/2011BBC
Teachers have voted to oppose military recruitment activities in schools if they employ "misleading propaganda".
Britain’s own child soldiers
08/07/2011The Guardian
A third of army recruits are under 18. Is it right to target the young and the underachieving poor?
Dalston Army Showroom Closes
07/07/2011Hackney Stop the War
We're celebrating after the closure of the army showroom in the Kingsland shopping centre. We've been campaigning against the centre for two years.
Army closes Hackney recruitment centre – for now
02/07/2011Hackney Gazette
A controversial Army recruitment office has closed just two years after it opened amidst protests by anti war and gun campaigners.
Court martial for Navy medic conscientious objector
02/07/2011ForcesWatch press release
A medic in the Royal Navy will face court martial on Monday 4 July despite declaring that he is a conscientious objector.
response to Armed Forces Day
25/06/2011
Today [Saturday 25 June] is Armed Forces Day, one of the clearest examples of the creeping militarisation of British society.
ForcesWatch letter to the press
Campaigners and churches back Armed Forces Bill amendments on recruiting children into the armed forces
13/06/2011ForcesWatch press release
Organisations and churches who have questioned the recruitment of under 18s into the armed forces are backing an amendment which could see children no longer able to enlist and bring the UK into line with international standards.
Teenage soldiers given right to discharge
10/06/2011The Friend
Quakers have been central to a campaign that resulted in a change to government policy last week, as a minister announced that teenage soldiers will be given the right to discharge at any time before turning eighteen.
‘MoD unfairly imprisons teenagers’
10/06/2011Defence Management
Teenage soldiers have been unfairly detained in military prisons due to a failure from the MoD to effectively implemenent discharge policies, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers has said.
