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Take precautionary measures to prevent killing and maiming civilians, including children, and investigate and bring to justice members of the US armed forces responsible for violations against children.The committee’s report and recommendations regarding US compliance with the protocol were adopted on January 28.Īmong its recommendations, the committee urged the US to: It also requires countries to take steps to prevent the use of child soldiers and to rehabilitate and assist children who have been involved in armed conflict. It bars governments from forcibly recruiting children under 18 and from using them in direct hostilities. The protocol was ratified by the US in 2002. On January 16, the 18-member, Geneva-based committee conducted a formal review of US compliance with an international treaty, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. “The US should take decisive action on the child rights committee’s common-sense recommendations.” “The US can and should do more to protect children affected by armed conflict,” said Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. It also expressed “deep concern” at the arrest and detention of children in Afghanistan, laws that exclude former child soldiers from securing asylum in the US, and presidential waivers to US laws that have allowed governments using child soldiers to receive US military assistance. The committee said it was “alarmed” at reports of the deaths of hundreds of children from US attacks and air strikes in Afghanistan since the committee last reviewed US practices in 2008. The committee raised a number of concerns regarding US practices during armed conflict that were harmful to children, Human Rights Watch said. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child released a report and recommendations to the US government on February 5, 2013. (Geneva) – The United States government should promptly carry out the recommendations of a United Nations committee of experts to improve protection of children abroad from armed conflict.