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  2. Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed ...

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    The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC), also known as the child soldier treaty, is a multilateral treaty whereby states agree to: 1) prohibit the conscription into the military of children under the age of 18; 2) ensure that military recruits are no younger than 16; and 3) prevent recruits aged 16 or 17 from ...

  3. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1314 - Wikipedia

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    On 25 May 2000, the General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict.The Security Council underlined the need for all parties to comply with the principles of international law, including the principles contained in the United Nations Charter, Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and Ottawa Treaty.

  4. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1261 - Wikipedia

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    The security council was informed prior to the adoption of the resolution that 300,000 children from the age of seven or eight were serving as soldiers, guerrillas or supporting roles in armed conflicts in more than 30 countries around the world. [2] It was also told that wars within the past decade, armed conflicts had killed 2 million ...

  5. Child Soldiers International - Wikipedia

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    Its purpose was to campaign for the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC) [5] – a human rights treaty that prohibits the use of children in armed conflict and raises the age of military recruitment. The treaty was adopted in 2000 and entered the ...

  6. Committee on the Rights of the Child - Wikipedia

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    The committee also monitors the convention's three optional protocols: the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure. [3]

  7. Children in the military - Wikipedia

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    After the adoption of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, a campaign for global ratification made swift progress. [34] As of 2018 OPAC had been ratified by 167 states. [227] The campaign also successfully encouraged many states not to recruit children at all. In 2001 83 states only allowed adult enlistment.

  8. Category:Convention on the Rights of the Child - Wikipedia

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    Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict; Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography; Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure

  9. Children's rights under ISIL - Wikipedia

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    This act is prohibited under various international treaties and conventions such as Article 77.2 of the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, Article 4.3.c of Protocol II, additional to the Geneva Conventions and ...