What are girls duties in the armies?
Sri Lanka is an exception. One of the reasons why I wanted to highlight the plight of girls is because girls get it in both directions. Just like their male counterparts, they face the same traumas in combat, and they face the same traumas post-conflict once their participation has ended. At the same time, they’re used for sexual purposes. They’re made to be wives, or they’re just passed around and repeatedly gang-raped. In Sri Lanka, that kind of sexual assault or sexual exploitation is not allowed by the Tamil Tigers, who use girl soldiers. But typically, girls are being sexually exploited on top of their combat experiences. Is it true that the United States and Somalia are the only countries that have not ratified the [United Nations’] Convention on the Rights of the Child [also known as the CRC]? It is true that the U.S. and Somalia are the only countries that have not ratified the convention. The U.S. has, although it obstructed the CRC for many years, signed on to the optional pr
