Tens of thousands of men were conscripted into Japan's military.

The more vulnerable people are, the easier the process of recruitment becomes.

The dissident factions have a pool of potential candidates to recruit from.

About 500,000 young men are conscripted every year.

The ultra orthodox parties have reacted with horror and even threatened to leave the country en masse if they are drafted.

Further, the root causes of the phenomenon of child soldiers and the incentives for recruitment must be addressed and countered.

Around 200,000 girls and women, some from Korea, were engaged in sexual services, with the euphemism comfort women .

In a liberal regime, control of populations by political parties does not entail enrolment, since the system does not countenance totalitarian parties.

They were recruited by many expanding northern industries, such as the Pennsylvania Railroad, the steel industry, and meatpacking.

In the early part of the war, the professional force of the BEF was virtually destroyed and, by turns, a volunteer (and then conscripted) force replaced it.

By creating and strengthening community support systems, the risk of children being abducted or recruited into the fighting forces will be reduced.

We cannot win unless the number of people the extremists recruit is lower than the number we kill and deter.

That science insists that only those who have been inducted into its community, through means of training and credentials, are qualified to make these criticisms.

Functioning as a clearing house for information and analysis from all components of MONUC, the Cell would be complementary to the Mission's substantive offices and would also draw upon the reporting by military observers and contingents.

Five of six respondents who served in the military since the 1990 s were subject to abuse as soldiers.

While the Sudanese Armed Forces have yet to undertake a survey of children in their ranks, they have reiterated their commitment not to recruit children. Other armed groups continue to incorporate children.

In an era of limited military specialization, when the number of conscripted cultivators offered the best single indication of military success, Upper Burma with a greater population was the natural center of political gravity.

The Zetas star recruits in recent years have come from the Guatemalan military s special forces, whose infamous induction technique involved biting off the head of a live chicken.

In some areas, there is credible evidence of harassment and threats of re recruitment of children released from armed groups, and lack of security continues to hamper reintegration.

Demands the immediate demobilization and disarmament, reintegration and, where applicable, repatriation of all child soldiers, particularly girls, who have been recruited or used in armed conflicts

UNICEF action in Liberia has placed emphasis on children recruited into armed fighting groups as fighters, sex slaves, cooks, potters and spies, among others.

They would include 26,000 Forces nouvelles elements, of whom 3,000 are children, and 4,000 personnel from the national armed forces who were recruited since the crisis began in September 2002.

During the past few years, more than 500,000 children, recruited in 87 countries, with approximately 300,000 actively participating in combat, have been involved in conflict in some form.

(iv) The continuing recruitment and use of child soldiers by armed forces and groups, including the enlistment and kidnapping of children throughout the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in particular in North and South Kivu and in the eastern province

Demands the immediate demobilization and disarmament, reintegration and, where applicable, repatriation of all child soldiers, particularly girls, who have been recruited or used in armed conflicts in contravention of international law

Deeply alarmed at the spread of the practice of abduction of children for various purposes, inter alia for recruitment into the armed forces or groups participating in hostilities, for sexual exploitation and forced labour,

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once said that the measure of success in this war is whether the number of terrorists we are killing and deterring is larger than the number that the terrorists are recruiting.

Article 141 of the Code provides that any person who, without the agreement of the public authorities, constitutes or mobilizes armed gangs or equips or furnishes gangs with weapons and ammunition will go to prison for no less than five years.

The abduction of children in Liberia remains a complex issue as many children were variously affected, including through forcible recruitment into armed groups, coercion into commercial sex, and child trafficking.

Particular attention should be paid to programmes for children as there was a great risk for ex combatants who had previously benefited from disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes to be recruited again by fighting parties should the society relapse into violence.

Furthermore, the Forces nouvelles inaugurated a Police Academy in Bouaké on 10 February 2005, where they intend to train a first group of 600 police officers recruited in the areas under their control.