Committee: United Nations International Children Emergency Fund

Topic: Recruitment and use of children in armed conflicts

Country: Germany

Honourable Chairs, Dear Delegates,

A matter of great significance which has been giving rise to numerous discussions for the past years is the use and misuse of children as a hazardous labour force in armed conflicts. Young people under the age of eighteen years recruited as soldiers are not only spectators and executors of acts of brutality but also victims of this unthinkable atrocity themse...