In the firing line - war and children's rights

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Amnesty International 1997, Anglais, 118 pages

Children have rights. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has been ratified by almost every country in the world. Yet, as this disturbing new book from Amnesty International shows, these rights are horrifically abused, daily, throughout the world.

In today's wars and armed conflicts, more than 90 per cent of casualties are civilians - half of them children. This is no accident: children are now deliberately targeted, their communities are devastated, and they are coerced into becoming soldiers.

The past decade has seen two million children killed and four million seriously injured or maimed by landmines. Millions of children are among the refugee and 'internally displaced' populations.

This book is part of Amnesty International's campaign to protect and promote children's rights. Amnesty International wants to see a world in which the involvement of children in wars is as unacceptable as the use of weapons of mass destruction.

ISBN: 1-873328-34-6