Submitted by: ICW Committee of GB

The National Council of Women: concerned by reports of children forced into servitude or slavery in certain countries, including the increasing abduction of children in areas of armed conflict to serve as child soldiers, aware of our international obligations to protect the human rights of children and to safeguard their welfare, calls upon Her Majesty’s Government: (a) to work within the framework of the United Nations and other appropriate organisations to secure international co-operation to protect the human rights of children, both from conditions of forced servitude or slavery, and from abduction in time of war to serve within conflicting armed forces; and (b) to consider, where appropriate, with industry and other agencies concerned, recommendations for the protection of children at risk.