What has the US Goverment done?
The US Government has done some things to help the Child soldier situation. These things include spending 81 million on anti-trafficking efforts abroad. This money was spread out in the following areas: USAID to set up and improve DDR Programs in Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan, In Afghanistan the US Department of Labor demobilized nearly 4000 child soldiers and enrolled them re-education programs, “In 1999, the United States ratified International Labor Organization Convention 182, which recognizes the “forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict” as one of the worst forms of child labor,” and in December 2002 when the US ratified the UN Optional Protocol on the use of Children in armed conflict, that makes the minimum recruitment age 18.
The US has helped this situation but it is clear that this is still a huge problem and more needs to be done! A large amount of people in the US still have no idea what is going on with the child soldiers or who they are! This will be greater illustrated in our documentary in which a link will be posted once it is complete. Here are a couple pictures of child soldiers to help illustrate the terrors of this situation in the minds of people who curently know nothing about it. Hopefully this will help towards this problem in some way.
links to pictures:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~halle019/child_soldier01.jpg
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/WORLD/africa/02/12/child.soldiers/vert.child.soldier.gi.afp.jpg
http://www.wehaitians.com/a_master_pho_1.jpg
http://www.coalition-films.com/images/projects/intro_child_soldier.jpg
