To ensure effective implementation of the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2008 and hold governments accountable for involving children in armed conflict activities, whether as combatants, servants, or sex slaves.
Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2017
This bill amends the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2008 to prohibit assistance from being provided to, or licenses for direct commercial sales of military equipment issued to, the government of a country whose police or other security forces recruit and use child soldiers.
The Department of State shall include such countries in its annual trafficking in persons report.
Specified other reporting requirements are revised.
Became Public Law No: 115-425.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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