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Line 32: ==International law== [[Image:Vietchildsoldieradj.JPG\|thumb\|left\|160px\|12 year old [[ARVN]] soldier with [[M-79 grenade launcher]], [[Tan Son Nhut]], 1968 ([[Vietnam War]])]] ===International human rights law=== The [[United Nations]] [[Convention on the Rights of the Child]], Art. 38, (1989) proclaimed: "State parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that persons who have not attained the age of 15 years do not take a direct part in hostilities." The [[Optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict]] to the Convention that came into force in 2002 stipulates that its State Parties ''shall take all feasible measures to ensure that persons below the age of 18 do not take a direct part in hostilities and that they are not compulsorily recruited into their armed forces''.

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