Emily Julian Article Review Sheet title: “The African Children Soldiers”
Author: Sandra Rocha
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): African Politics: Global Issues, 11, 2003
Summary: Over 11,000 children are used in the military in Africa. These children are taken to fight as early as the age of seven. The poorest countries in the world use children for soldiers, and Africa happens to be one of the poorest countries on the map. Children are recruited wherever an army force would pass. Useful Info: How early the children are recruited at and how they are recruited.
Recommendation: Yes, it has a lot of useful information in the article regarding these children soldiers and the effects they face after fighting in the army.
2nd Article: Article Review Sheet
Title: Children Soldiers in Africa (Political Violence)
Author: Alcinda Honwana
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): Recruitment, 2, 2003
Summary: It talks about why they choose children at such a young age to fight. It mentions what the children do when they aren’t fighting. Girls are recruited to fight also.
Useful Information: I didn’t think they picked girls to fight too. It gave a lot of information about that and what they do when they are not fighting.
Recommendation: No. Not enough basic information. It gives the details but not enough.
"Uganda's Invisible Children" by Hannah Butler Youth focus for a just world,2004
Summary: The purpose of this article was to inform us about children living in the rural towns of Uganda who can't sleep at night in their own homes. They are forced to walk 20 km every night to the "safe" outskirts of their village to sleep because they are afraid of being kidnapped in their sleep by the Lord's resistance Army. Thousands of Ugandan children have already been abducted and were made into weapons, killers at war and sex slaves. They can be as young as eight years old. The purpose of this article to to prove that these issues are happening right now, and the sad part is that not many people know about it.
Useful information: Since 1987, 95% of the population has been displaced due to the LRA. 1000 people die every week from disease, the poor living conditions and violence. 80% of the world's child soldiers comes from the LRA. The LRA have become known for their atrocious style of attack, and can be seen on the faces of the people of northern Uganda who now smile without lips, hear without ears and smell without noses. Children are taught to perform terrible atrocities — including killing their families and other children — or face death themselves
Recommendations: I want to know more about what happens to the children after they have been abducted. How do they brainwash such young kids to soldiers and sex slaves? I recommend that the author should add specific examples of a child for each issue, soldier, sex slave, and nightly commute.
Ngoc Article 2 "The Weight of Silence:Invisible Children of India" Shelley Seale Summary: This article explains the issues of Invisible children in India. There has been a recent increase in the number of homeless, poor orphans, often starting at ages 3 and 4. With occupied orphanages and other institutional homes, they have no where to go ,live, eat, or sleep. Many of them are neglected by society and are often caught digging through trash cans for food, and old newspapers to sell on the dangerous streets.
Useful info: The entire article contained useful information, perhaps not enough information.
Recommendations: I would like to know why there is a sudden increase in orphans. Is it an economic issue occurring in India? I would suggest the author to add more details and specifics.
Ngoc Article 3 Review "Children Soldiers World Wide:Uganda's LRA 2007
Summary: The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) , led by Joseph Kony, formed in the north from bases in southern Sudan. In 1997,the LRA aimed to overthrow the Ugandan Government and brought chaos and violence to the people in northern Uganda. They also targeted local government officials, employees, international humanitarian convoys, and local workers.In particular, the LRA abducted numerous children and, at clandestine bases, terrorized/brainwashed them into guards, sex slaves, and soldiers. They were also being beaten, raped, and forced to march until exhausted, abducted children were forced to participate in the killing of other children who had attempted to escape. The LRA consisted of 80% of child soldiers. Around 3,000 children are still being abducted and held captive today. In August 2006, the Uganda government and LRA agreed to peace talks. This quickly failed on January 20th, 2007 the LRA formally refused to continue stating "Peace talks in Sudan are closed forever,".
Recommendations: This article provides specific dates and numbers for readers to realize how recent this is and just about how many children are involved.
Ngoc Article 4 "Child Soldiers Around the World" Council on Foreign Relations 2008
Summary: Child Soldiers do not only exist in Uganda, but world wide. Almost all child soldiers are physiologically scarred after war. About 300,000 children are combatants in around thirty conflicts worldwide. Nearly half a million additional children serve in armies not currently at war, and 40 percent of the world's armed organizations have children in their ranks. Some believe that child soldiers are effective. Trusting, vulnerable, and often intimidated, children can easily be manipulated, experts say. Many times, the armies will drug the children to get them to cooperate. Child units can greatly add to confusion on battlefields, slowing opposing forces' progress. Children have also been used as scouts, messengers, minesweepers, bomb-makers, and suicide bombers, and advanced troops in ambush attacks. About 30 % of the child soldiers are girls, they are used as sex slaves and sometimes, the army leaders get them pregnant, still forcing them to fight while carrying their baby on their back. Like Uganda, other places that have child soldiers are Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Liberia.
Useful Information: After war, child soldiers often witness or commit horrifying atrocities including rape, be-headings, amputations, and burning people alive. Child survivors of their military experience are often left with severe mental health problems. They often lack basic survival skills because the armies using them provide food and shelter. Various human rights groups have set up programs to help rehabilitate demobilized child soldiers, but they can only do so much.
Article Review Sheet Title: Children Soldiers Mobilized
Author: Jeffrey Gettleman
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): The New York Times, November 2008
Summary: The dozens of children that are recruited daily are fighting on the front lines of any battle they face. Many of these children that were recruited had already been children soldiers previously. They were trying to get back into their families, but right as they were almost back with them, they are taken back into the army.
Useful information: There was some useful information, but not all of it. The amount of children who are recruited daily was interesting, but it didn’t have enough information. Recommendation: No, it didn’t contain enough information. -------------------------------- Emily Julian
Title: The Perfect Weapon for the Meanest Wars
Author: Jeffrey Gettleman
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): The New York Times, April 2007
Summary: There are 300,000 children soldiers worldwide. Children are used because they are easily manipulated, loyal, fearless, and endless in supply. Many adults don’t want to fight, so the easiest way to get people to fight is to abduct kids.
Useful Information: There is a lot more information in this article than I included in the summary. It is all useful information.
Recommendation: Yes, I would strongly recommend it because this is probably one of the top articles that I have found on this topic.
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): New York Time; 6/25/2008, p8, op
Summary: Lawyers at the International Criminal Court fought over the possible release of Thomas. He was a warlord in the Congo who is charged with recruiting child soldiers. His court was halted due to insufficient evidence. What information did you find useful in the article? That they have trials for warlords normally they are just killed in action I would of pressumed.
Recommendation Not really, because it does not contain any wowing info just a little heres a fact type of article.
Article title: Babies and Bathwater: Seeking and Appropriate Standard of Review for the Asylum Applications of Former Child Soldiers
Author: Morris, Mary-Hunter
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): Harvard Human Rights Journal; Summer 2008, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p281=99, 19p
Summarization: The article aims to seek an appropriate standard of review for the asylum applications of former child soldiers in the U.S. A brief background on the forced conscription of minors and the urgency of their need for asylum is discussed. They way they apply is also described
Usefulness of article. How there is a selection process for kids who need to go to an asylum from being a child soldier.
Recommendation Yes, it’s an interesting article about what the child soldiers may have to do to cope with the fighting after they are done.
article 1-Invisible Children Document tells Story of Uganda War
author- Tim McCall
The Daily Collegian
Summary- This article talks about how Invisible Children got started and goes on and tells the history of the war in Uganda that has been going on since the 80's. It all started after England left Uganda in the 1960s and left the southern part of Uganda with the power leaving the north powerless. The north feeling powerless and jealous of the south a women named Alice Auma started a spiritual movement and convinced others to join her to take over the south. She soon was banned from Uganda and a new leader claiming to be related to Alice took her place in the movement and started to brainwash children between the aged of 5-12 as his main target. He used these children to build his army to fight the south and they are called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The war has now been going on for over 20 years.
Recommendation- I think this article is actually really good. It gets to the facts right away and gives you good back round information and is not wicked long either.
Article 2-Uganda: Unabreakable
no author.
Strategypage.com
Summary- This article has a bunch of recent new information about whats going on in the war in Uganda and what going on with the LRA.
Recommendation- Im not sure if this article is relevant enough to use as information for our paper or not. It's worth looking at tho.
8 comments:
Emily Julian
Article Review Sheet
title: “The African Children Soldiers”
Author: Sandra Rocha
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): African
Politics: Global Issues, 11, 2003
Summary:
Over 11,000 children are used in the military in Africa. These children are taken to fight as early as the age of seven. The poorest countries in the world use children for soldiers, and Africa happens to be one of the poorest countries on the map. Children are recruited wherever an army force would pass.
Useful Info:
How early the children are recruited at and how they are recruited.
Recommendation:
Yes, it has a lot of useful information in the article regarding these children soldiers and the effects they face after fighting in the army.
2nd Article:
Article Review Sheet
Title: Children Soldiers in Africa (Political Violence)
Author: Alcinda Honwana
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): Recruitment, 2, 2003
Summary:
It talks about why they choose children at such a young age to fight. It mentions what the children do when they aren’t fighting. Girls are recruited to fight also.
Useful Information:
I didn’t think they picked girls to fight too. It gave a lot of information about that and what they do when they are not fighting.
Recommendation:
No. Not enough basic information. It gives the details but not enough.
Ngoc Article 1
"Uganda's Invisible Children"
by Hannah Butler
Youth focus for a just world,2004
Summary:
The purpose of this article was to inform us about children living in the rural towns of Uganda who can't sleep at night in their own homes. They are forced to walk 20 km every night to the "safe" outskirts of their village to sleep because they are afraid of being kidnapped in their sleep by the Lord's resistance Army. Thousands of Ugandan children have already been abducted and were made into weapons, killers at war and sex slaves. They can be as young as eight years old. The purpose of this article to to prove that these issues are happening right now, and the sad part is that not many people know about it.
Useful information:
Since 1987, 95% of the population has been displaced due to the LRA. 1000 people die every week from disease, the poor living conditions and violence. 80% of the world's child soldiers comes from the LRA. The LRA have become known for their atrocious style of attack, and can be seen on the faces of the people of northern Uganda who now smile without lips, hear without ears and smell without noses. Children are taught to perform terrible atrocities — including killing their families and other children — or face death themselves
Recommendations:
I want to know more about what happens to the children after they have been abducted. How do they brainwash such young kids to soldiers and sex slaves? I recommend that the author should add specific examples of a child for each issue, soldier, sex slave, and nightly commute.
Ngoc Article 2
"The Weight of Silence:Invisible Children of India"
Shelley Seale
Summary:
This article explains the issues of Invisible children in India. There has been a recent increase in the number of homeless, poor orphans, often starting at ages 3 and 4. With occupied orphanages and other institutional homes, they have no where to go ,live, eat, or sleep. Many of them are neglected by society and are often caught digging through trash cans for food, and old newspapers to sell on the dangerous streets.
Useful info:
The entire article contained useful information, perhaps not enough information.
Recommendations: I would like to know why there is a sudden increase in orphans. Is it an economic issue occurring in India? I would suggest the author to add more details and specifics.
Ngoc Article 3 Review
"Children Soldiers World Wide:Uganda's LRA 2007
Summary: The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) , led by Joseph Kony, formed in the north from bases in southern Sudan. In 1997,the LRA aimed to overthrow the Ugandan Government and brought chaos and violence to the people in northern Uganda. They also targeted local government officials, employees, international humanitarian convoys, and local workers.In particular, the LRA abducted numerous children and, at clandestine bases, terrorized/brainwashed them into guards, sex slaves, and soldiers. They were also being beaten, raped, and forced to march until exhausted, abducted children were forced to participate in the killing of other children who had attempted to escape. The LRA consisted of 80% of child soldiers. Around 3,000 children are still being abducted and held captive today. In August 2006, the Uganda government and LRA agreed to peace talks. This quickly failed on January 20th, 2007 the LRA formally refused to continue stating "Peace talks in Sudan are closed forever,".
Recommendations: This article provides specific dates and numbers for readers to realize how recent this is and just about how many children are involved.
Ngoc Article 4
"Child Soldiers Around the World"
Council on Foreign Relations 2008
Summary: Child Soldiers do not only exist in Uganda, but world wide. Almost all child soldiers are physiologically scarred after war. About 300,000 children are combatants in around thirty conflicts worldwide. Nearly half a million additional children serve in armies not currently at war, and 40 percent of the world's armed organizations have children in their ranks.
Some believe that child soldiers are effective. Trusting, vulnerable, and often intimidated, children can easily be manipulated, experts say. Many times, the armies will drug the children to get them to cooperate. Child units can greatly add to confusion on battlefields, slowing opposing forces' progress. Children have also been used as scouts, messengers, minesweepers, bomb-makers, and suicide bombers, and advanced troops in ambush attacks. About 30 % of the child soldiers are girls, they are used as sex slaves and sometimes, the army leaders get them pregnant, still forcing them to fight while carrying their baby on their back. Like Uganda, other places that have child soldiers are Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Liberia.
Useful Information:
After war, child soldiers often witness or commit horrifying atrocities including rape, be-headings, amputations, and burning people alive. Child survivors of their military experience are often left with severe mental health problems. They often lack basic survival skills because the armies using them provide food and shelter. Various human rights groups have set up programs to help rehabilitate demobilized child soldiers, but they can only do so much.
Emily Julian
Articles for Friday, Nov. 7
Article Review Sheet
Title: Children Soldiers Mobilized
Author: Jeffrey Gettleman
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): The New York Times, November 2008
Summary:
The dozens of children that are recruited daily are fighting on the front lines of any battle they face. Many of these children that were recruited had already been children soldiers previously. They were trying to get back into their families, but right as they were almost back with them, they are taken back into the army.
Useful information:
There was some useful information, but not all of it. The amount of children who are recruited daily was interesting, but it didn’t have enough information.
Recommendation: No, it didn’t contain enough information.
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Emily Julian
Title: The Perfect Weapon for the Meanest Wars
Author: Jeffrey Gettleman
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): The New York Times, April 2007
Summary:
There are 300,000 children soldiers worldwide. Children are used because they are easily manipulated, loyal, fearless, and endless in supply. Many adults don’t want to fight, so the easiest way to get people to fight is to abduct kids.
Useful Information:
There is a lot more information in this article than I included in the summary. It is all useful information.
Recommendation:
Yes, I would strongly recommend it because this is probably one of the top articles that I have found on this topic.
Article title: CongoFormer Warlord’s Trial Halted
Author: Simons, Marlise
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): New York Time; 6/25/2008, p8, op
Summary:
Lawyers at the International Criminal Court fought over the possible release of Thomas. He was a warlord in the Congo who is charged with recruiting child soldiers. His court was halted due to insufficient evidence.
What information did you find useful in the article? That they have trials for warlords normally they are just killed in action I would of pressumed.
Recommendation
Not really, because it does not contain any wowing info just a little heres a fact type of article.
Article title: Babies and Bathwater: Seeking and Appropriate Standard of Review for the Asylum Applications of Former Child Soldiers
Author: Morris, Mary-Hunter
Where article is from (journal title, issue #, etc.): Harvard Human Rights Journal; Summer 2008, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p281=99, 19p
Summarization:
The article aims to seek an appropriate standard of review for the asylum applications of former child soldiers in the U.S. A brief background on the forced conscription of minors and the urgency of their need for asylum is discussed. They way they apply is also described
Usefulness of article.
How there is a selection process for kids who need to go to an asylum from being a child soldier.
Recommendation
Yes, it’s an interesting article about what the child soldiers may have to do to cope with the fighting after they are done.
article 1-Invisible Children Document tells Story of Uganda War
author- Tim McCall
The Daily Collegian
Summary-
This article talks about how Invisible Children got started and goes on and tells the history of the war in Uganda that has been going on since the 80's. It all started after England left Uganda in the 1960s and left the southern part of Uganda with the power leaving the north powerless. The north feeling powerless and jealous of the south a women named Alice Auma started a spiritual movement and convinced others to join her to take over the south. She soon was banned from Uganda and a new leader claiming to be related to Alice took her place in the movement and started to brainwash children between the aged of 5-12 as his main target. He used these children to build his army to fight the south and they are called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The war has now been going on for over 20 years.
Recommendation-
I think this article is actually really good. It gets to the facts right away and gives you good back round information and is not wicked long either.
Article 2-Uganda: Unabreakable
no author.
Strategypage.com
Summary-
This article has a bunch of recent new information about whats going on in the war in Uganda and what going on with the LRA.
Recommendation-
Im not sure if this article is relevant enough to use as information for our paper or not. It's worth looking at tho.
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