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Title Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 - Equatorial Guinea
Publisher Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Country Equatorial Guinea
Publication Date 2001
Cite as Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 - Equatorial Guinea, 2001, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/498805fd21.html [accessed 26 May 2012]
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Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 - Equatorial Guinea

REPUBLIC OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Mainly covers the period June 1998 to April 2001 as well as including some earlier information.

  • Population:
    total: 442,000
    under-18s: 219,000
  • Government armed forces: unknown
  • Compulsory recruitment age: not specified
  • Voluntary recruitment age: not specified
  • Voting age (government elections): unknown
  • Child soldiers: unknown
  • CRC-OP-CAC: not signed
  • Other treaties ratified: CRC; API+II; ILO 138
  • It is not known whether there are under-18s in government armed forces as there appears to be no legislation regulating the minimum recruitment age. There have been no reports about the recruitment of under-18s.

GOVERNMENT

National Recruitment Legislation

The Constitution makes military service compulsory, but there appear to be no laws to regulate national service.659 There are no reports that the armed forces conscript anyone under the age of 18.


659 Horeman and Stolwijk; also report of Secretary-General, UN Doc. E/CN.4/1997/99 op. cit.

Topics: Child soldiers, Military service,


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