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Summary: Children have rights. The United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child has
been ratified by almost every country
in the world. Yet, as this disturbing
new book from Amnesty International
shows, these rights are horrifically
abused, daily,throughout the world. Children have rights. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child has
been ratified by almost every country in the world. Yet, as this
disturbing new book from Amnesty International shows, these rights
are horrifically abused, daily,throughout the world. In today's wars
and armed conflicts, more than 90 per cent of casualties are
civilians - most of them children. This is no accident: children are
now deliberately targeted, their communities are devastated, and they
are coerced into becoming soldiers. The past decade has seen two
million children killed and four million seriously injured or maimed.
Of these, 800 a month are killed or maimed by landmines. Millions of
children are among the refugee and 'internally displaced'
populations.
This book is part of Amnesty International's campaign to protect and
promote children's rights. Amnesty International wants to see a world
in which the involvement of children in wars is as unacceptable as
the use of weapons of mass destruction.