QAMISHLI , Nov 28 — Kurdish protesters in northeastern Syria demonstrated outside UN offices today against what they say is the continued recruitment of teenage girls for combat, an AFP correspondent reported.A report published by the United Nations in May said that more than 400 children were recruited between July 2018 and June 2020 by the People’s Protection Units , a Kurdish militia, and its affiliates in northeastern Syria.
On Sunday, nearly 30 people gathered outside a UN building in the city of Qamishli to demand action after a number of girls were reported to have been recruited into fighting, some of them allegedly by force. “We fear for the future of our children, they should not be recruited or made to hold weapons,” she said.
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