Babes with Arms: International Law and Child Soldiers

28 Pages Posted: 24 Aug 2010

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Timothy Webster

Western New England University School of Law

Date Written: August 24, 2010

Abstract

This article examines advances in preventing children from participating in armed conflict. It references international human rights treaties, UN Security Council resolutions and jurisprudence from international courts to chart the course by which recruiting child soldiers became an international crime. At the same time, it calls on UN bodies – and the states that comprise them – to implement some of the many resolutions and veiled threats leveled at various groups and militias that use child soldiers.

Keywords: international law, child soldiers, Special Court of Sierra Leone, UN Security Council

Suggested Citation

Webster, Timothy, Babes with Arms: International Law and Child Soldiers (August 24, 2010). George Washington International Law Review, Vol. 39, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1664691 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1664691

Timothy Webster (Contact Author)

Western New England University School of Law ( email )

1215 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01119
United States

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