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Before you enlist: the film
23/07/2011
“Before You Enlist!” provides a rational voice to counter the seductive and often deceptive recruiting practices of the U.S. military. The message is not “don’t enlist” but rather to provide young people and their families a more complete picture of the life-altering consequences of joining the military – especially in wartime. Latest version: 2018. This short film is from the US so many of the details about recruitment are different from the UK, but the general questions to ask ‘before you enlist’ are similar.
Teachers reject ‘Army propaganda’
08/07/2011
Teachers have voted to oppose military recruitment activities in schools if they employ “misleading propaganda”.
Britain’s own child soldiers
A third of army recruits are under 18. Is it right to target the young and the underachieving poor?
Dalston Army Showroom Closes
07/07/2011
We’re celebrating after the closure of the army showroom in the Kingsland shopping centre. We’ve been campaigning against the centre for two years.
Army closes Hackney recruitment centre – for now
02/07/2011
A controversial Army recruitment office has closed just two years after it opened amidst protests by anti war and gun campaigners.
Teenage soldiers given right to discharge
10/06/2011
Quakers have been central to a campaign that resulted in a change to government policy last week, as a minister announced that teenage soldiers will be given the right to discharge at any time before turning eighteen.
‘MoD unfairly imprisons teenagers’
Teenage soldiers have been unfairly detained in military prisons due to a failure from the MoD to effectively implemenent discharge policies, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers has said.
Joint Human Rights Committee report state that Armed Forces Bill gives opportunity for debate on service of under-18s
19/05/2011
The report from the JHRC on the Armed Forces Bill ‘raises a number of significant human rights concerns in connection with the Bill’ and ‘calls on the Government to clarify the arrangements for the discharge of under-18s from the Armed Forces and to amend the service commitment made by under-18s to bring it in line with the commitment made by recruits of other ages.’
Catch 16-22: Recruitment and retention of minors in the British Armed Forces
26/03/2011
This report, published by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, “challenges the status quo currently surrounding the situation of young people in the UK armed forces today. It questions the ethics and legality of the restrictions on young recruits’ rights of discharge, their minimum period of service, and their exposure to the risk of hostilities. The report also makes the case for a considered review and debate on the minimum recruitment age. It highlights the evidence that not only is the experience of recruits in the 16 – 18 age bracket adversely affected by their relative lack of maturity, but that their high drop-out rate results in millions of pounds in wasted expenditure.”
‘Boy soldiers’ artwork shown outside Parliament
04/03/2011
A three-dimensional art installation depicting child soldiers is being displayed outside the Houses of Parliament as part of a peace campaign.
Cadet forces to be expanded in state schools
Military ‘spirit’ is to be encouraged in classrooms with the expansion of cadet forces in state schools.
One in 10 Army recruits ‘bullied and intimidated’
08/02/2011
A decade after Deepcut, MoD reports reveal failure to tackle problem affecting hundreds of trainees.
AT EASE advice
06/02/2011
AT EASE is an advice service to those in the armed forces and family members which has been running since the 1980s. It is staffed by volunteers. There is a telephone helpline or you can send an email. There is information on various terms of service issues and conscientious objection on the website.
Information on registering a conscientious objection in the UK
Information on registering a conscientious objection in the UK armed forces.
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