![]() ![]() Girls – and sometimes boys – are also recruited for sexual purposes. ![]() “The time has come for the world to unite and turn the page, once and for all, on the recruitment and use of children by security forces in conflict.”Īround the world, thousands of boys and girls are recruited into government forces and armed opposition groups to serve as combatants, cooks, porters, messengers or in other roles. “There is a consensus among States that no child should be recruited or used in conflict by government forces,” said Special Representative Zerrougui, as she launched the ‘Children, Not Soldiers’ campaign in New York. Leila Zerrougui and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake today unveiled a new effort to end the recruitment and use of children in government forces in conflict by 2016. NEW YORK, 6 March 2014 – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Ms. ![]()
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