Human rights groups call for bar on junior entry, which accounts for quarter of intake to army

Ministers have been urged to stop the practice of recruiting children to Britain’s military by a coalition of 20 human rights organisation as MPs debate the armed forces bill.

The pressure to end the practice also comes as figures showed that girls aged under 18 in the armed forces made at least 16 formal complaints of sexual assault to military police in the last six years – equivalent to one for every 75 girls in the military.

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian.

Print Share Comment Cite Upload Translate Updates

APA

Ben Quinn | radiofree.asia (2024-05-14T06:00:55+00:00) » Recruitment of under-18s to British military should end, ministers told. Retrieved from https://radiofree.asia/2021/06/23/recruitment-of-under-18s-to-british-military-should-end-ministers-told/.

MLA

" » Recruitment of under-18s to British military should end, ministers told." Ben Quinn | radiofree.asia - Wednesday June 23, 2021, https://radiofree.asia/2021/06/23/recruitment-of-under-18s-to-british-military-should-end-ministers-told/

HARVARD

Ben Quinn | radiofree.asia Wednesday June 23, 2021 » Recruitment of under-18s to British military should end, ministers told., viewed 2024-05-14T06:00:55+00:00,<https://radiofree.asia/2021/06/23/recruitment-of-under-18s-to-british-military-should-end-ministers-told/>

VANCOUVER

Ben Quinn | radiofree.asia - » Recruitment of under-18s to British military should end, ministers told. [Internet]. [Accessed 2024-05-14T06:00:55+00:00]. Available from: https://radiofree.asia/2021/06/23/recruitment-of-under-18s-to-british-military-should-end-ministers-told/

CHICAGO

" » Recruitment of under-18s to British military should end, ministers told." Ben Quinn | radiofree.asia - Accessed 2024-05-14T06:00:55+00:00. https://radiofree.asia/2021/06/23/recruitment-of-under-18s-to-british-military-should-end-ministers-told/

IEEE

" » Recruitment of under-18s to British military should end, ministers told." Ben Quinn | radiofree.asia [Online]. Available: https://radiofree.asia/2021/06/23/recruitment-of-under-18s-to-british-military-should-end-ministers-told/. [Accessed: 2024-05-14T06:00:55+00:00]

rf:citation

» Recruitment of under-18s to British military should end, ministers told | Ben Quinn | radiofree.asia | https://radiofree.asia/2021/06/23/recruitment-of-under-18s-to-british-military-should-end-ministers-told/ | 2024-05-14T06:00:55+00:00

To access this feature and upload your own media, you must Login or create an account.

Visual Text

Use this space to make a translated version of this post.

Add an image

Choose a Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Basque Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Cambodian Chinese (Mandarin) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Fiji Finnish French Georgian German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Korean Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Quechua Romanian Russian Samoan Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Tatar Telugu Thai Tibetan Tonga Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Xhosa