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Summary: OUP's summary of the publication
1994 is the International Year of the
Family, and debates about the rights of
the child are once again at the top of
the national and international legal
and political agenda.
OUP's summary of the publication
1994 is the International Year of the Family, and debates about the
rights of the child are once again at the top of the national and
international legal and political agenda. Yet in places of armed
conflict all over the world tens of thousands of children are
recruited to fight in bloody conflicts, and their rights are
systematically ignored and abused. In this path-breaking study,
Professor Goodwin-Gill and Dr Cohn assess the status of the Child
Soldier in international law and highlight the ways in which
international humanitarian law fails to provide effective protection,
particularly in the internal conflicts which are the most common
battlefields today. Based upon empirical data gathered from places of
conflict all over the world, the authors examine the consequences for
child soldiers, their families and community of their participation
in armed conflict. They conclude their study with practical
suggestions for preventing recruitment, and call for a more coherent
policy of treatment for those children who have participated in acts
of violence.
Owner: Ilene Cohn,Guy S. Goodwin-Gill