"I would like to give you a message. Please do your best to tell the world what is happening to us, the children. So that other children don't have to pass through this violence."A 15-year-old girl who escaped from the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda
more than half a million children under-18 have been recruited into government armed forces, paramilitaries, civil militia and a wide variety of non-state armed groups in more than 85 countries. At any one time, more than 300,000 of these children are actively fighting as soldiers with government armed forces or armed political groups.
artist Clarence Lin calls our attention to the crisis in stark black-on-white prints. Each print in ‘thewarchildproject‘ displays a silhouette of an armed child soldier - one for each of the thirty-six countries that have been reported as using children on the front lines. With an estimated 300,000 children under the age of 18 serving in both government and rebel forces worldwide, this is both a thought-provoking series of prints and totally worthwhile project to get behind.
CHECK OUT myspace/thewaschildproject
sources: www.joshspear.com & http://web.amnesty.org
illustration: CLARENCE LIN
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