![]() Committee members demanded to know why discrepancies in the figures of child detainees may exist (reports claim as many as 60 children have been transferred to Guantánamo since 2002), pointing out that the U.S. on its claims that only two prisoners currently at Guantánamo were children at the time of their transfer to the prison. ![]() officials pushed the United States to clarify how it has determined that only eight children have ever been detained at Guantánamo, and it questioned the U.S. delegation, cutting them off when they digressed, pushing them repeatedly on issues, and generally expressing its displeasure with the U.S. The Committee pulled no punches, and were extremely forceful with the U.S. officials they were concerned about the detention of children in Iraq and Afghanistan, the prosecution of former child soldiers at Guantánamo, and the abusive military recruitment of youth. Committee members, who pointedly told U.S. These revelations and other information disclosed in the shadow reports prompted clear concern among the U.N. has detained 2,500 children under 18 in U.S.-run detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, including 513 children currently imprisoned in U.S. submitted last week contained the explosive revelation that the U.S. delegation on the basis of “shadow reports” submitted by the ACLU and two other groups, as well as two official reports submitted by the U.S. Committee during a public review session today. officials, including Department of Defense officials overseeing Detainee Affairs, reported to the U.N. custody and establishes the U.S.’s minimum obligations to protect children under 18 from military recruitment. in 2002, the Optional Protocol lays out guidelines for the treatment of former child soldiers in U.S. Committee on the Rights of the Child reviewed the United States for its compliance with the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict. Today here at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, the U.N. ![]()
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