Many children are in current times participating in war in multiply countries all over the world. They are being denied their right to childhood and often subjected to violence of all kind. The organization Humans Rights Watch (HRW) are estimating that about 300,000 children world-wide are serving as soldiers in armed conflicts, where they participate in all aspects of contemporary warfare. Child soldiers are taught how to use machinery, stand on the front lines of combats, serve as human mine detectors, participate in suicide missions, carry supplies, and act as spies, messengers or lookouts.

It has been estimated that child soldiers are being used in more than thirty countries around the world. Because children are physically vulnerable and easily intimidated, they make obedient soldiers, and it is for this reason children are used as soldiers, many times non-voluntarily. Many of them are abducted or recruited by force, others join...