This report is Child Soldiers International’s individual, written submission to the 2013 Universal Periodic Review on Chad. In this submission Child Soldiers International provides updated information relating to measures taken by the government to prevent child recruitment and use.
The submission first points to the fact that recruitment and use of children are not currently criminalised in Chad. It then notes with concern that Chad is almost nine years late in the submission of its initial report on implementation of the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict. The document then provides updated information on the continued enlistment of children and the shortcomings of child ‘DDR’ throughout 2012.
Child Soldiers International concludes that Chad has so far failed to take a certain number of practical measures to implement its international human rights obligations and enforce its domestic law in relation to the protection of children from unlawful recruitment into the armed forces.