An amendment numbered 25 printed in Part C of House Report 111-143 that the use of child soldiers is unacceptable and is a violation of human rights and the prevention and elimination of child soldiers should be a foreign policy goal of the United States.

1. Adds SEC. 11__. INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION AND ELIMINATION OF CHILD SOLDIERS at the end of subtitle B of title XI

   Adds a section

   Inserted: SEC. 11__. INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION AND ELIMINATION OF CHILD SOLDIERS.

   Inserted: It is the sense of Congress that--

   Inserted: (1) the use of child soldiers is unacceptable;

   Inserted: (2) the use of child soldiers is a violation of human rights and the prevention and elimination of child soldiers should be a foreign policy goal of the United States;

   Inserted: (3) the use of child soldiers promotes killing and maiming, sexual violence, abductions, destabilization, and displacement;

   Inserted: (4) investing in the health, education, well being, and safety of children, and providing economic opportunity and vocational training for at-risk youth, is critical to achieving the goals of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of Children; and

   Inserted: (5) countries should raise to 18 years of age the minimum age for the voluntary recruitment of persons into their national armed forces.

   Original wording

   At the end of subtitle B of title XI, add the following:

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