Launch Of Publication Why 18 Matters By Child Soldiers International
EDM number 1339 in 2017-19, proposed by Liz Saville Roberts on 05/06/2018.
Categorised under the topics of Armed forces and Children and families.
That this House supports the work of Child Soldiers International, which campaigned tirelessly to end the military exploitation of children worldwide; welcomes its latest publication Why 18 Matters, a rights-based analysis of child recruitment; condemns the ongoing recruitment of children by 46 states worldwide, including the UK, while recognising the 151 states that no longer do so; urges these 46 states to end the military recruitment and training of children; notes with alarm the evidence of lasting psychological harm caused to adolescent recruits by military training, including the 45 per cent increased suicide rate amongst the army's youngest recruits compared to their civilian peers; and calls on the Government to take swift, decisive action to raise the age of armed forces recruitment to 18.
This motion has been signed by a total of 12 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Liz Saville Roberts | 05/06/2018 | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | Plaid Cymru | Proposed |
Jonathan Edwards | 05/06/2018 | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | Plaid Cymru | Seconded |
Hywel Williams | 05/06/2018 | Arfon | Plaid Cymru | Seconded |
Ben Lake | 05/06/2018 | Ceredigion | Plaid Cymru | Seconded |
Kelvin Hopkins | 06/06/2018 | Luton North | Labour | Seconded |
Mary Glindon | 06/06/2018 | North Tyneside | Labour | Seconded |
Jim Cunningham | 07/06/2018 | Coventry South | Labour | Signed |
Caroline Lucas | 11/06/2018 | Brighton, Pavilion | Green | Signed |
Mike Hill | 11/06/2018 | Hartlepool | Labour | Signed |
Marie Rimmer | 13/06/2018 | St Helens South and Whiston | Labour | Signed |
Sandy Martin | 14/06/2018 | Ipswich | Labour | Signed |
Ruth George | 14/06/2018 | High Peak | Labour | Signed |
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