Name: A Day in the Life of a Child Soldier
Uploaded: 2009-11-17T20:43:00-05:00
Duration: 9 min 23 s
Description: Human Right’s Watch’s Jo Becker delineates the recruitment of child soldiers, and the abuses they suffer once they’ve been drafted.

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Jo Becker

Jo Becker founded the International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and was a leading advocate for the international treaty prohibiting the use of child combatants, adopted by[…]

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