Military recruitment

35. In 1995, 160,569 German conscripts filed an application for refusal to render war service.

No. They draft everybody now.

These four 19 year old conscripts were reportedly arrested in early April 1997 and accused of involvement in the murder of another conscript, whose body had been found three months after his disappearance.

Why did they have to draft him?

The story of what happened when he was a conscripted soldier in the Dutch armed forces at the beginning of the Second World War.

He's got fallen arches.

Would all the draftees assemble over here, please.

(iv) Voluntary enlistment Voluntary enlistment should not be allowed for children under 18.

(a) Failure to answer recruitment call up a maximum of 1 year apos s imprisonment in peacetime 1 to 10 years in wartime

44. On the subject of the age of recruitment, persons under the age of 18 should not be involved in hostilities, either directly or indirectly, and such persons should not be recruited, even on a voluntary basis.

Somalia There are reports of the arrest and imprisonment of persons refusing military service reports also indicate that some refugees not liable in law to conscription have been forced into the army.

If an individual simply fails to or ignores his obligation to define his military status and lets time pass, he may be fined when he does define it, even if he is not recruited.

In addition there is special protection against dismissal of women (workers and employees) whose husbands have been drafted into the military services (art. 333, para. 1, item 1, of the Labour Code).

Of ongoing concern is the recruitment and rerecruitment of children, including children in some refugee camps.

She heard about Birdie being drafted. She's going to see Ed Sullivan.

Unaccompanied and separated girls and boys are at particular risk of military recruitment.

In the event of armed conflict, children and young persons shall have the right not to be recruited and the State shall ensure compliance with the international humanitarian law standards applicable to them.

The Government usually prescribes, by virtue of section 46, subsection 1, of the Act on Compulsory Military Service, that a conscript who has received such a sentence shall not be called up for military service until further notice.

A number of young people are said to have willingly taken the tests for enrolment in the army, while others wished to leave the civic service soon as possible, fearing for their lives.

6. With respect to the age of recruitment into the armed forces (art. 2), UNHCR, consistent with the position stated above, insists that the minimum age for either compulsory or voluntary recruitment into the armed forces should be set at 18 years, and does not agree that earlier recruitment should be acceptable with parental consent.

34. For these reasons, we firmly believe that the participation of children in conflicts or their recruitment by armies or non governmental armed groups is unacceptable from every human rights point of view, even in cases where enlistment is voluntary.

Chile Everyone must register at the age of 18 and may be called up between the ages of 19 and 30 (Decree Law 2306, Recruitment Law, arts. 19 and 28) (AI).

In March 1917, two months after Puerto Ricans had been declared United States citizens under the Jones Act, 17,855 Puerto Ricans had been called up for military service on the European theatre of operations.

Moreover, conscripts have the right to be informed in writing, namely in the Certificate of Fitness for Service which they receive after induction, how soon they are likely to be called up.

In this context, the Government agreed to set an example by not recruiting children under the age of 18.

28. In the southern Sudan, children were being exploited, used as human shields, forcibly recruited, tortured and killed by the rebel movement.

Ethiopia Men between the ages of 18 and 30, although there are reports of juveniles as young as 12 being conscripted.

Angola All men from 18 to 50 and women with quot special qualifications of interest to the Armed Forces quot are liable for military service (Law No. 12 82), but those over 30 serve only in the Reserve Force. (There are reports, however, of children as young as 16 being forced into conscription) (AI).

Every draft for military service includes an alternative service contingent averaging 300 persons.

Over a million children have met this fate over the past 10 years, and hundreds of thousands of other children are enlisted in armed forces in countries where there is currently no armed conflict.

China Men aged 18 to 22 may be drafted into the army men aged 18 to 35 may be drafted into the militia, or into the army during wartime.

The remaining graduates would add to the pool of qualified teachers from which the Agency could draw in future.

I'll cry into my pillow every night.

Meanwhile, extortion schemes, illegal taxation, forced recruitment and violence attributed to other armed groups still continue in some areas.

There is an obligation to perform reserve duties from the age of 30 to the age of 50, and since June 1990 retired members of the armed services are called up also (AI).

The South's sinking to its knees.

I have at last joined that revolting group of world travelers.

We in the Department of Public Information can do no less.

Between 4,000 and 7,000 Ugandan children had been abducted by rebels in northern Uganda and forced into military service.

Approximately 30 persons from minority tribes who had been conscripted but had refused to return to the front in 1982, had been imprisoned and tortured.

65. The alarming trend of increased participation of children in armed conflicts has led to a situation whereby children are abducted and forcibly conscripted for that purpose.

Otherwise, drafting under the present draft Protocol would only be possible with the consent of the parents or persons having parental powers, a fact that already gave rise to difficulties in the past before the relevant paragraph was inserted.

Conscription into the armed forces

As a result of the critical security situation, it became necessary to evacuate all internationally recruited staff from Kivu.