Research Question

-Why is it so common to have child soldiers fighting in battle in Sierra Leone?

-What is the reason for having child soldiers be in battle in Africa?

-What is the role of child solders in Africa that are fighting for human rights from the UN?

-How have child soldiers made such an impact on developing human rights for all?

-How much progress has been made for getting human rights for children (child soldiers) in Africa to be protected from armed conflict?

Countries to look further at Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, ad Uganda.

Potential sources:
http://saiv.net/SourceBook/Storage/documents/doc_armedconflict_children.pdf

http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=6714BA85B70D593FF60C42990726EF91.inst1_3a?docId=5001368863

 

1. I was interested on how countries in Africa are sending letters of concern for their own countries on human rights problems to the Unites States government.  This shows that other countries around the world look up to the Unites States because of the success of our human rights.  In the link below there is a letter from Chad to Barrack Obama pleading about the waivers for Children Soldiers prevention act.  Many countries in Africa like Chad are in desperate need to rebuild their human rights programs to not have child soldiers in battle.  
The LRA is taking over Africa and the victims of the LRA are speaking out to President Obama and other world leaders to help stop the War against the LRA.

2.Links:
-http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/11/05/ngo-letter-president-obama-regarding-waivers-child-soldiers-prevention-act
-http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/11/10/congocentral-african-republic-lra-victims-appeal-obama



3.Questions: Why are countries in Africa relying on the Unites States to help them maintain human rights in their countries?