On February 7, Advancing Human Rights committee member Tzili Mor addressed the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva regarding U.S. violations of the Optional Protocol on Children in Armed Conflict:

“The nearly 14,000 boys and girls who actually sign up for military service represent only a tiny fraction of the youths targeted annually by military recruiters who have become an ominous presence in elementary schools, junior and high schools across the country where students as young as 11 can participate in Cadet and Training Corps.

U.S. NON-PROFITS SUBMIT 465-PAGE “SHADOW REPORT” DETAILING ABUSES AT HOME

PROPAGANDA FOR WAR
ISSUE TO BE REVIEWED

Contacts:
Gillian Gilhool, WILPF U.S.
215-923-7789, email: grgilhool@verizon.net

Susi Snyder, WILPF International
office: +41 22 919 7080, mobile: +41 79 813 8369, email: susi.snyder@wilpf.ch

REPORT ON  FAILURE OF COMPLIANCE WITH ARTICLE 20 PROHIBITING PROPAGANDA FOR WAR 

prepared for the

UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHT COMMITTEE

Eighty-seventh session

 for its review of the

Second and Third Periodic Report of the United States of America under the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights

June 2006

INTRODUCTION

To: Members of the U.N. Human Rights Committee
From: Rev. Daniel Buford for the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Peoples Institute, and Allen Temple
Date: May 31, 2006