Many parts of the Marshall Islands are uninhabitable due to U.S. mainland, mining and testing have disproportionately affected Native American communities, desecrating sacred sites and contaminating the land, leading to epidemics of miscarriages, cancers, and other diseases. In January 2020, the Trump administration announced a new landmine policy, allowing the Department of Defense to once again produce, acquire, and use landmines -threatening new communities and swaths of the environment.įurther, uranium mining and nuclear weapons testing by the United States have wreaked havoc on land and water. Landmines remain deadly long after conflicts end, making agricultural land unusable, restricting access to water, harming wildlife, and leaching toxic chemicals into the soil. Landmine and cluster munitions are another way military engagement harms the environment and destabilizes communities.
In just one example, cancer, birth defects, and other conditions have been potentially linked to environmental pollution due to the Iraq war. Water sources are contaminated, and wildlife negatively impacted. Military vehicles and weaponry cause air pollution and produce toxic dust. military activity also causes direct harm to the environment. national emissions totals, thanks in large part to pressure from the United States during the negotiation of the 1992 Kyoto Protocol, but these greenhouse gases are directly linked to climate change and the threat of a warming planet. These military emissions are not included in U.S. Department of Defense has a disproportionate impact on climate change.
No matter their involvement, the recruitment and use of children by armed forces is a grave violation of child rights and international humanitarian law.As the world’s single largest consumer of oil and a top greenhouse gas emitter, the U.S. Still others associate themselves for survival or to protect their communities. Others are driven by poverty, compelled to generate income for their families. Some are abducted, threatened, coerced or manipulated by armed actors. Many, especially girls, are also subjected to gender-based violence.Ĭhildren become part of an armed force or group for various reasons. Warring parties use children not only as fighters, but as scouts, cooks, porters, guards, messengers and more. Often referred to as “child soldiers,” these boys and girls suffer extensive forms of exploitation and abuse that are not fully captured by that term. Thousands of children are recruited and used in armed conflicts across the world. Between 20, more than 105,000 children were verified as recruited and used by parties to conflict, although the actual number of cases is believed to be much higher.
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