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February 12, 2002

Fortune Favors the Innocuous- The

Fortune Favors the Innocuous- The United Nations has banned child soldiers.

"The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, and campaigners, will mark the treaty's enforcement with a special ceremony in the grounds of the UN's European headquarters in Geneva"
says the BBC.

One wonders if the "enforcement" will ever be carried out outside the "grounds of the UN's...European headquarters".

Laws don't keep children out of the army. Prosperity, and an end to chickenspittle dictatorships, just might.

Posted by Mitch at February 12, 2002 01:19 AM
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