Child soldier in a rebel group in Myanmar

Raise Awareness about Child Soldiers

Target:

World

Sponsored by:

Taylor Rafferty, Operation Christmas Child

This petition is aimed at raising awareness about the 300,000 child soldiers in African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern nations.

We the undersigned petition for raising awareness about the plight of child soldiers around the world. Many times these children are abducted by a rebel group, drugged, and taught to kill, usually against their will. Girls who are recruited are particularly subjected to sexual abuse, including rape. Each child has a story and each child has a different way of coping with the terrible atrocities they commit. By raising awareness about their unfortunate circumstances and treatment opportunities and supporting human rights organizations like UNICEF, we can change the world one word at a time. We have a moral responsibility to support these young children. Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and I hope you join us in making a difference.

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We signed the "Raise Awareness about Child Soldiers" petition!

# 27:

2:39 pm PDT, Oct 12, Alex Parks, Washington
Since I have been taking a class on current world problems, I have now realized how bad our world actually is. We need to get people's attention, hopefully this will stop all of the madness.

# 26:

10:03 pm PDT, Jul 26, Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin

# 25:

10:23 am PDT, Jun 25, Carly Crosby, Michigan

# 24:

8:38 pm PDT, Jun 21, Tatiana Costa, Brazil

# 23:

6:14 pm PDT, Jun 17, Julia Tawyea', Pennsylvania

# 22:

3:29 pm PDT, Jun 15, Jane Rodriguez, Philippines

# 21:

9:42 pm PDT, Jun 11, Kristana Blake, Texas

# 20:

5:45 am PDT, Jun 11, Katarzyna Kanclerz, Poland

# 19:

6:38 pm PDT, Jun 9, Colleen Polak, Rhode Island
As a teacher I have a passionate interest in stopping this horrific practice. Children suffer far too much abuse on this planet. Children live what they learn--and then share that knowledge with their children. Violence begets violence. Child soldiers are proof that the people using them hold them to be of no value. To the people who run these so-called armies, the children are nothing more than cannon-fodder. They send the children in first - put them on the front lines all drugged up, convincing them they are invulnerable to death. CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE...these militaristic imbeciles are killing the future of the human race.

I teach children who have arrived in the US from camps in Africa. These children have dead eyes, do not express feelings in ways expected of chioldren their age. They have separation issues, throwing temper tantrums completely out of proportion to the situation (being accidentally pushed in a lunch line, for instance.) They have many PTSD symptoms, emotional dysfunction and a degree of neediness that goes far beyond their financial situations. They are in public schools where they are utterly foreign to the culture and behavioral expectations. These children are unable to express gratitude for simple kindnesses and have myriad problems. Anyone who has ever eaten a school lunch knows it is no gourmet treat. These little boys and girls devour every bite and, if they run out of time before they are through, stuff fruit and wrapped snacks in their pockets. Children should never have to see what child soldiers and children who are war refugees have seen and done. No human being should have to live through the terror these children have and continue to experience.

# 18:

7:13 pm PDT, Jun 8, Name not displayed, Hong Kong

# 17:

1:29 pm PDT, May 31, Christine Vaudrin-Rios, Washington

# 16:

6:33 am PDT, May 31, ALPHA WI, Germany
THIS PLANET IS A DISGRACE WITH SO MANY BAD PEOPLE!!!

# 15:

5:08 am PDT, May 31, Abi Cohen, Australia
Children are the innocent victims of our worlds greed and hunger for domination and control, let children be children they are victims not perpetrators

# 14:

5:48 pm PDT, May 30, Jennifer Gardner, Florida

# 13:

5:43 pm PDT, May 30, Trevor Cohen, Australia

# 12:

4:23 pm PDT, May 29, Livia Hirsch, Vermont

# 11:

4:50 am PDT, May 29, Elaine Robinson, United Kingdom
There are tons of child soldiers they av been bribed brain washed threatened

You av to raise awareness a child should not hate be trained to kill

# 10:

4:16 am PDT, May 27, Name not displayed, Norway

# 9:

7:56 am PDT, May 26, Peter Carlson, Tennessee
Think about it. They are children. It's insane. In most cases these kids are abducted and brainwashed. Even as soldiers they are abused and murdered by their leaders.

If our country truly wants to fight terrorism around the world, this is truly something we can not ignore.

# 8:

7:08 am PDT, May 26, Mieke Bernaards, Belgium

# 7:

6:03 am PDT, May 26, David N Moore, Connecticut

# 6:

3:43 am PDT, May 26, Ed Rafferty, Wisconsin
This is an evil that needs to changed

# 5:

2:28 am PDT, May 26, Bill C, Germany

# 4:

2:00 am PDT, May 26, Cathrine Tveten, Norway

# 3:

10:42 pm PDT, May 25, Geneva Hamiel, Ohio

# 2:

9:11 pm PDT, May 25, David Dunkleberger, Pennsylvania

# 1:

8:06 pm PDT, May 25, Taylor Rafferty, Wisconsin

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