Child Soldiers International: SNP urged to back army recruitment motion
Child Soldiers International has issued the following statement which NJPN has supported.
We are in support of the SNP Youth motion to be debated at Conference on Sunday 8 October, “Raising the minimum age of military recruitment to 18”.
The continued enlistment of under-18s into the British armed forces is a historical anachronism which has no place in a professional modern military or nation which respects the rights and welfare of its young people.