Editing Children in the military (section)

==History==
{{Main|History of children in the military}}
History is filled with children who have been trained and used for fighting, assigned to support roles such as porters or messengers, used as [[Sexual slavery|sex slaves]], or recruited for tactical advantage as [[human shield]]s or for political advantage in propaganda.<ref name="UNICEF-2007" /><ref name="Children at war"/><ref name="Womennewsnetwork-2009">{{cite web|url=http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/01/13/ugandagirlsoldier809/|title=Girl Soldiers – The cost of survival in Northern Uganda, Women News Network – WNN|work=Woman News Network (WNN) |date=13 January 2009|publisher=Womennewsnetwork.net|access-date=12 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523212431/http://womennewsnetwork.net/2009/01/13/ugandagirlsoldier809/|archive-date=23 May 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1813 and 1814, for example, [[Napoleon]] conscripted many young French teenagers for his armies.<ref>Michael Leggiere, The Fall of Napoleon: The Allied Invasion of France 1813–1814, pg.99–100</ref> Thousands of children participated on all sides of the First and Second World Wars.<ref name="BBC News">{{cite web|title=How did Britain let 250000 underage soldiers fight in WW1?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zcvdhyc|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321184716/http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zcvdhyc|archive-date=21 March 2018|access-date=22 January 2016|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref name="Davies-2004">[[Norman Davies]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jzxt9FFBDPwC&pg=PA603 ''Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw,''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206143118/https://books.google.com/books?id=Jzxt9FFBDPwC&pg=PA603|date=6 February 2016}} Pan Books 2004 p.603</ref><ref name="Rosen2005">{{cite book|author=David M. Rosen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQYQ0tho6mAC&pg=PA55|title=Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism|date=January 2005|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-3568-5|pages=54–55|quote=The participation of Jewish children and youth in warfare was driven by a combination of necessity, honor, and moral duty.|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206143118/https://books.google.com/books?id=zQYQ0tho6mAC&pg=PA55|archive-date=6 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Kucherenko2011">{{cite book|last=Kucherenko|first=Olga|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92R8Pmr6xoAC&pg=PR3-IA96|title=Little Soldiers: How Soviet Children Went to War, 1941–1945|date=13 January 2011|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-161099-8|page=3|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206143118/https://books.google.com/books?id=92R8Pmr6xoAC&pg=PR3-IA96|archive-date=6 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Children continued to be used throughout the 20th and early 21st century on every continent, with concentrations in parts of Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.<ref name="CSGR2004-292" /> Only since the [[2nd millennium|turn of the millennium]] have international efforts begun to limit and reduce the military use of children.<ref name="Machel-1996" /><ref name="Becker-2013" />