Day to Oppose the Use of Child Soldiers

Jessica Slavin on the Marquette Law Faculty and Diane Marie Amann on IntLawGrrls note that today, February 12, marks the eighth anniversary of the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. The United States is a party to the protocol (even though it remains one of the only two countries in the world that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child itself).

KJ