Recruitment of Children Into Terrorist Groups

According to the United Nations, despite global consensus against sending children into battle, there are 300,000 children under the age of 18 (both male and female) serving as combatants in almost 75 percent of the world’s conflicts. In 80 percent of this, there are child fighters under the age of 15 and 18 percent fighters under 12. Also, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), more than 8,000 boys and girls have been recruited and used as child soldiers for different roles by armed groups across Nigeria in the last 14 years. This includes children as young as four…