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US Government passes Child Soldier Prevention Act
By World Vision on 31 Dec 2008
In December 2008, the United States Government passed the Child Soldier Prevention Act, a bill that the World Vision US advocacy team initiated, co-authored and led through a three-year passage.
While most of the world’s estimated 250,000 child soldiers are enslaved by rebel or guerilla groups, eight national governments also use children as soldiers.
Until now, the US Government has provided military assistance to six of those eight governments.
This bill restricts all forms of US military assistance to any government that uses child soldiers, until the children are removed from conflict and demobilised and the government policies are changed.
This new law will compel these and other governments to stop using children in conflict, thereby saving the lives and childhoods of countless children.
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