Under apartheid laws, only whites could be conscripted.

Women may serve in the Greek military, but cannot be conscripted.

In '39 I came over to London to enlist.

In addition, a permanent recruitment station for the United States armed forces is based on St. Thomas and a recruitment centre for the United States Marine Corps was established on St. Croix in April 1988.

In relation to the legal obligation of military service, both Acts contain certain restrictions on a conscript apos s freedom of movement.

Young people must still, however, register for possible conscription (should the situation call for it).

Unaccompanied and separated girls and boys are at particular risk of military recruitment.

According to FOM, 51 of Russians support abolishing conscription, and 67 are against extending the age of eligibility for the draft.

The provision of adequate food rations and other assistance also reduces the vulnerability to recruitment of displaced and war affected children.

Across the Caucasus, a generation has grown up absolutely lost to Russia and increasingly susceptible to recruitment into the ranks of Allah s warriors.

As the Court observed, he was a conscript and had failed to prove that military service was no obstacle for him to obtain a passport.

Children continued to be victims of the armed conflict, in particular as a result of the forced recruitment of thousands of boys and girls, hostage taking, displacements and the use of antipersonnel mines.

At person who was 8 years old at the end of the war is now 80. A young man who was eligible for conscription then is now 92.

There are no confirmed figures on the number of child soldiers or children associated with the fighting forces, but information from various sources indicate that 1 out of 10 children in Liberia may have been recruited at one time or another.

(35) The General Assembly, States and national and international organizations should ensure that the age of recruitment into the armed forces is raised to 18 and that an international instrument is concretized to this effect.

The Territory maintains a 700 strong defence regiment the adult male population is subject to military conscription, involving three years' part time liability for weekly drills and an annual camp.

They are the result of registration exercises carried out by Rwanda and her partners, sometimes on schedule, sometimes not.

In recent months, men eligible for conscription but who refused to serve in the army have been compelled to dig trenches at or near the front line and have been housed in very poor conditions.

Until the Thai government grasps this simple point, young men like those I met in Yala will still be recruited into militant activity.

Before the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in August 2003, the main areas of recruitment and abduction were internally displaced person and refugee camps, entertainment areas, and areas captured by fighting forces.

There is currently a draft Protocol on Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts which advocates the age criterion for recruitment to be set at 18 so as to prevent children under that age from being recruited.

19. In accordance with the new law governing military service and reserve service adopted on 30 July 1992 (see S 24833, para. 25), 14 departmental recruitment and reserve centres have been established.

To ensure transparency, and in a spirit of cooperation, the Government arranged a visit by the Resident Coordinator and a representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to the two main recruitment centres in Yangon and Mandalay, and they were able to interact freely with the recruits.

Invite Interpol to adopt the creation of a standard central agency to disseminate information on wanted persons and travelers in general, and facilitate access to this information, including their travel movement, to all Member States.

Policies and laws need to be harmonized with the Convention, as do issues such as raising the legal age of recruitment in line with the standards in the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict.

How is peace fostered if the elimination or dramatic diminution of Hamas s capability leaves Gaza in the hands of even more militant groups, and gives Islamists throughout the region another recruitment tool?

Encouraging states to adopt national legislation and procedures capable of preventing terrorists from utilizing asylum and immigration laws to reach safe havens or to use states' territories as bases for recruitment, training, planning, instigation, and for the launching of terrorist operations against other states.

In his sixth periodic report (E CN.4 1994 110, paras. 94 and 103), the Special Rapporteur noted that, in December 1993, Croatian citizens born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Bosnian refugees, were singled out for forced recruitment.

In the government's response to this report, it was mentioned that only about a third of all future enlistments complete the medical background forms, and that the IDF is currently exploring internet based options for completing these forms.

To increase the strength of the police to 10,000 throughout Somalia by December 1994, UNOSOM will start a new recruitment programme, as soon as the training facilities and the trainers are available, using as a minimum the following criteria.

Develop national legislation and procedures to prevent terrorists from abusing migration and asylum laws to establish safe havens or to use the territory of states as bases for recruiting, training, planning, inciting, or launching of terrorist operations against other states.

Such an interpretation would allow the State party to use and abuse the refusal of a passport as a means of exerting pressure on a conscript, so as induce him to return to Finland and perform his military service and be disciplined for his non appearance in the military call ups.

Created to absorb army rejects who must still complete their mandatory national service, the CSF is a lower rung security organization in a country whose armed forces are subpar to begin with.

States and other stakeholders in civil society are encouraged to ensure that adequate resources are provided to allow girls and boys to enjoy their rights, such as the right to education, and to prevent the risk of being (sexually) exploited or abused, being recruited into armed groups or forces, or trafficked.

In its decision, the Supreme Administrative Court merely observed that the Embassy had the right, under Section 9, subsection 1(6), not to issue a passport to the author because he was a conscript and had failed to prove that military service was no obstacle for obtaining a passport.

6.4 As regards the time dimension, it is submitted that the application of section 9(1)(6) of the Passport Act cannot be limited solely to the period of a person apos s actual military service, but that it necessarily covers a more extensive period before and after such service, in order to secure that a conscript really performs his military service.