Protecting children from recruitment in armed conflicts in light of the provisions of Islamic jurisprudence and the rules of international humanitarian law

Abstract

It goes without saying that the phenomenon of child recruitment in armed conflicts, both international and non-international, is one of the main issues that attracted the attention of the international community and raised its concerns, as childhood is the first stage of life in which the individual is formed and prepared to assume responsibility, and given the seriousness of this phenomenon, this weak creature has received care and attention from the community. The internationalist who established rules to protect the child and prohibited his recruitment into the ranks of the fighters, as well as the sponsorship of Islamic jurisprudence, which had a precedence in establishing established rulings and principles for more than fourteen centuries to protect him even before his birth and prohibit his participation in fighting before puberty