{"id":16842,"date":"2020-05-25T14:50:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demop.netbaz.be\/2021\/jp\/2020\/05\/25\/stop-au-recrutement-d-enfants-dans-les-conflits-armes\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T17:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:44:52","slug":"stop-the-recruitment-of-children-in-armed-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/en\/stop-au-recrutement-d-enfants-dans-les-conflits-armes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the recruitment of children in armed conflicts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16841\" src=\"http:\/\/demop.netbaz.be\/2021\/jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jpg_wing.jpg\" alt=\"wing.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" align=\"center\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jpg_wing.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jpg_wing-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>War is no one&#039;s game. Even less for the hundreds of thousands of<strong>&#039;children<\/strong> recruited by militias or armed groups and used throughout the world as soldiers, cooks, porters, spies, antipersonnel mine layers, sex slaves, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Justice and Peace Belgium and <strong>WING platform <\/strong> (War Is Not a Game) celebrate today the<strong> 20th anniversary<\/strong> of a<strong> Protocol <\/strong> which provides for the prohibition in principle of recruiting persons under the age of 18 and using them to participate in hostilities: the \u201cOptional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts &quot;. This Protocol is ratified by 170 States and yet the use of children in armed conflicts is the reality in many countries.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2019, Justice and Peace and other Belgian Red Cross, GRIP, Wapa organizations with the support of the DGDE created the national WING platform which aims to prevent and put an end to the recruitment of children, to support disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs, to raise public awareness of the problem of child soldiers and to conduct research on this problem.<\/p>\n<p>WING calls for the universalization of the Protocol and its effective respect in order to allow children to have a childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Discover WING&#039;s recommendations to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers, like the WING page and discover our site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wingplatform.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.wingplatform.be<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/www.wingplatform.be\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16842 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jpg_wing.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jpg_wing-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"wing.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jpg_wing-2.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jpg_wing-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"wing-2.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La guerre n\u2019est un jeu pour personne. Encore moins pour les centaines de milliers d\u2019enfants recrut\u00e9s par des milices ou groupes arm\u00e9s et utilis\u00e9s \u00e0 travers le monde comme soldats, cuisiniers, porteurs, espions, poseurs de mines antipersonnel, esclaves sexuels, \u2026 Justice et Paix Belgique et la plateforme WING (War Is Not a Game) c\u00e9l\u00e8brent aujourd\u2019hui [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":16841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"2696","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2696],"tags":[2802,2861,2824,2842,2827,2801],"class_list":["post-16842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","tag-bonne-gouvernance","tag-campagnes","tag-droits-humains","tag-enfants-soldats","tag-paix-securite-defense","tag-violence-sexuelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justicepaix.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}