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Educator Ronald Adamat is 1st Filipino to win Gandhi Peace Prize

Awarding Ceremony For The Mahatma MK Gandhi Foundation For Non-Violent Peace

The Mahatma MK Gandhi Foundation for Non-Violent Peace will hold its awarding ceremony and World Peace Seminar for the year 2020 (which has been long overdue

Children as Propaganda: Let s Protect Rather Than Penalise Child Soldiers – Groundviews

Photo courtesy of Rediff  Kannan was ten when he joined the LTTE; he left when he was fourteen. His testimony on what he had experienced as a child soldier recruited against his will and forced into combat revolutionised international human rights law when Amnesty International insisted on including acts by non-state groups as human rights violations. From there emerged a strong coalition of international human rights groups against child recruitment, which has successfully lobbied for sweeping reforms. A special UN convention was formulated, there were two Security Council resolutions and an International Labour Organisation Convention. Recruitment of children for combat purposes is now a war crime and a crime against humanity – the International Criminal Court’s first trial was on child recruitment. The UN gives special status to the Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict.

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