Rights Group Calls on Obama to Require Prohibition of Child Soldiers

Human Rights Watch urged President Barack Obama’s administration to require foreign governments receiving United States military assistance to immediately end their use of child soldiers. The rights group renewed its call Thursday, as the U.S. State Department issued its annual trafficking report with a new list of countries implicated in the use of child soldiers. Many of the governments listed in Trafficking in Persons Report 2016 “receive U.S. military aid year after year despite...

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