The problem of the child soldier before the international criminal justice between protection and responsibility.

Abstract

The phenomenon of child recruitment has become a constant increase, especially with the expansion of the circle of non-international armed conflicts that have recently been witnessed in many regions, especially Yemen, Syria and Libya, or the export of children to ISIS sites to participate in the fighting operations. Confusion in the international legal and judicial systems, ranging from the legal protection sanctioned by most international conventions and covenants to holding them criminally responsible for the international crimes they commit during their participation in hostilities. The massacres, and in the face of all these negative images, the world is required to commit to providing greater protection for these children, as the phenomenon of their recruitment and use in armed conflicts no longer poses a threat only to their lives and future, which creates a lost, distorted generation from them that suffers from physical and psychological effects and social isolation, but has also become a threat to society. International, in terms of creating a generation characterized by violence and aggression that has learned nothing of life skills except for In crime, he is not good at doing anything but fighting