Boy soldiers

sixofthebest · 2011-09-12T16:55:36+00:00

The particular needs of female child soldiers were emphasised in *UN Security Council Resolution 1325, adopted in 2000, www.un-instraw.org pdf Format. This resolution reaffirmed that the international community had to pay special attention to women's particular vulnerability during war, given the appalling nature of systematic sexual abuse and the use of rape as a weapon of war in some modern conflicts.*

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/17/the-rape-of-men

The research by Lara Stemple at the University of California doesn't only show that male sexual violence is a component of wars all over the world, it also suggests that international aid organisations are failing male victims. Her study cites a review of 4,076 NGOs that have addressed wartime sexual violence. Only 3% of them mentioned the experience of men in their literature. "Typically," Stemple says, "as a passing reference."

"International human rights law leaves out men in nearly all instruments designed to address sexual violence," she continues. "The UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000 treats wartime sexual violence as something that only impacts on women and girls…

"There's a fear among them that this is a zero-sum game; that there's a pre-defined cake and if you start talking about men, you're going to somehow eat a chunk of this cake that's taken them a long time to bake." Dolan points to a November 2006 UN report that followed an international conference on sexual violence in this area of East Africa.

"I know for a fact that the people behind the report insisted the definition of rape be restricted to women," he says, adding that one of the RLP's donors, Dutch Oxfam, refused to provide any more funding unless he'd promise that 70% of his client base was female. He also recalls a man whose case was "particularly bad" and was referred to the UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR. "They told him: 'We have a programme for vulnerable women, but not men.'"

Guy51234 · 2011-09-12T19:35:32+00:00

It's pretty sick when the people traditionally tasked with helping children, women are still seen as that and yet the actual women are trying to use their positions to socially engineer the people their tasked with helping.

Men aren't allowed to help, where does that leave the children? No where.

Look at the article. It's a joke. Girls are hit especially hard when boys are killed as soldeirs. Yes, it must hurt so much to watch the boys scream out for their mothers one last time before their young hearts give out and they die, very sad for the girls.

And of the boys, well, as this was written by either a half wit or a person without a brain we see that in the beginning a boy is killed for not going along.

Yet we see that poor treatment and sexual abuse are what is in store for boys under this scenario.

Could it not be poor treatment or sexual abuse but death that is the worse thing that is happening to these boys?

And looking at the rape of boys? Of course not, even in our suburbs we cheer HS teachers on to rape even more boys, no punishment means silent approval.

I'm sure the boys are most afraid of the death part, but I'm just a male and don't have the right to an opinion.....

Title	Boy soldiers
Author	imoverherenohere
Upvotes	8
Comments	4
Date	September 12, 2011 2:26 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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