This week's Article of the Week is:
Article 38: I am not allowed to join the armed forces until the age of 15.
Article 38 of the UNCRC covers how the rights of children relate to the armed forces. Children and young people should never be forced to fight in the armed forces or go to war. This right covers all jobs in a war, so doesn’t just apply to soldiers.
In times of armed conflict, the rights of children are violated in horrific ways. They are recruited and used as soldiers and in supporting roles as cooks, spies, couriers and for other purposes by armed groups and forces across the world. Children are also used as instruments of war - in rhetoric and acts of violence. Armed groups, for example routinely attack and occupy schools and hospitals, prevent girls from going to school, and use child abuse as a weapon of war.
Article 38 also states: that even when people between 15 and 18 sign up to the armed forces, priority should be given to the oldest among them.
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