MPT em Quadrinhos Nº 57 - International Year for the Elimination

<Bonjour! I am Charles Ayo , I am 12. When I was 10, I was recruited in my country to be a soldier.> 4 < My entire childhood was filled with fear and uncertainties. They said we were heroes, defensors of our ethnicity against the others, and we believed that.> <In the Sub-Saharan Africa, at least seven countries make use of boys and girls as sol- diers and in checkpoints, as informers, to loot villages, or to be slaves, including for household and sexual matters.> < A 159% raise , as informed by the NGO Child Soldiers International. 5 > <In overall numbers, in 2012, the UN counted 3,159 new children being recruited in 12 countries, while in 2017 that number reached up to 8,185 in 15 countries.> 4 - Translated from French. 5 - http://bit.ly/HQ57a < Altogether, according to the NGO, the number of recruitments from 2013 to 2018 was of 29,128 in 17 coun- tries. Half of the cases occurred outside Africa in nations like Syria, Iraq and Colombia.> 4