"Our sons will never be soldiers, our daughters will never need guns..."
Midnight Oil, Forgotten Years
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I've just signed the Children Should Never Be Soldiers Declaration committing myself to help bring peace and protection to the children of northern Uganda. As many as 30,000 children have been captured, tortured, and used as frontline soldiers and sex slaves in a bloody civil war that has raged for 20 years. The time has come to end this war.
I hope you will make this commitment, too.
Please join with thousands of concerned citizens and parents who believe that all children deserve to have a childhood free from torture and a future free from cruelty.
World Vision will take this petition to the Bush Administration, Congress, and the United Nations to demand action.
World Vision's goal is 1 million signatures—and they need your help to get there.
https://www.worldvision.org/Worldvision/guest.nsf/nochild_soldiers?OpenForm&lid=signpledge&lpos=feature
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On the subject, see also the 360 Blog:
Thursday, February 23, 2006 / Old horrors, young victims
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/
archives/2006_02_19_ac360_archive.html
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