German Alliance of Child Soldiers
The German Alliance for Child Soldiers (also: German coordination for children soldiers ) is an alliance of twelve non-governmental organizations founded in 1999 (ten today).
The central goal is the worldwide ban on the use of child soldiers under the age of 18, including through information and lobbying work, as well as targeted projects for children and young people who have already been affected. The alliance sees itself as a branch of the international Child Soldiers International (formerly Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers ), which has existed since 1998.
activities
The alliance wants to first draw attention to the problem of "child soldiers". To this end, it does lobby work and wants to work against the use of child soldiers with high-profile campaigns such as the "Red Hand" campaign.
Some of the member organizations carry out their own projects in different countries, such as rehabilitation centers for former child soldiers in Northern Uganda ( World Vision Germany ) or help for traumatized children and young people in the form of self-help groups ( Kindernothilfe ).
Goal setting
The central aim of the campaign is the worldwide ban on the use of child soldiers under the age of 18 ("straight 18") - regardless of whether they are forcibly or "voluntarily" recruited.
- Children under the age of 18 are not allowed to be recruited voluntarily or forcibly or used as soldiers in wars and conflicts (straight 18).
- People, states and armed groups who recruit children and use them as soldiers must be publicly named (by the UN Security Council) and sanctioned (economic consequences, travel bans, account freezes). Those responsible must be brought before the International Criminal Court or national courts.
- Former child soldiers need medical and psychological care. You must have received school or vocational training. This is especially true if they come to industrialized countries like Germany as refugees.
- Former child soldiers must be granted political asylum and protection in the countries to which they have fled.
- State and international funding for prevention and reintegration programs for child soldiers must be increased.
- There must be no exports of weapons (not even individual parts or ammunition) in crisis regions where children are used. This is especially true for small arms. Production licenses and exports to third countries that forward the weapons to crisis areas must be prohibited.
Members
- Aktion Weißes Friedensband eV
- amnesty international
- German Youth Red Cross
- German Committee for Unicef
- German National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation
- Kindernothilfe
- International Catholic Mission
- Network Africa Germany
- Plan International Germany eV
- terre des hommes
- World Vision Germany
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Aken, Jan van (research and editing): Das NGO-Handbuch: non-governmental organizations. Greenpeace Media, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811689-0-7 , p. 428.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Projects from World Vision Germany Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Projects of the Kindernothilfe Archivlink ( Memento of the original dated December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Aim of the action [1]
