Sixteen The role of the arts in resisting recruitment as child soldiers and ‘wives’: experience from Uganda and Nepal
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Bill Brookman
Abstract
This chapter looks at an innovative programme of work in relation to a peculiarly modern form of child slavery: child soldiers. It introduces the international laws on child labour and child soldiers, and the International Labour Organisation’s SCREAM programme (Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media). The chapter describes Bill Brookman’s experiences when piloting his new SCREAM module with children and young people in Uganda and Nepal. The SCREAM programme uses the arts to educate children about their rights with respect to all forms of work. The exercises include role-plays, creative writing, drawing and painting, theatre projects, debates and so on. This is an experimental approach to the rehabilitation of children traumatised by violence and abuse and, as with all such programmes, needs generalising and building on, involving a programme to train trainers, including teachers, advocates, and peer educators, who can take the ideas and the material into communities to raise the level of awareness of the issues involved.
Abstract
This chapter looks at an innovative programme of work in relation to a peculiarly modern form of child slavery: child soldiers. It introduces the international laws on child labour and child soldiers, and the International Labour Organisation’s SCREAM programme (Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media). The chapter describes Bill Brookman’s experiences when piloting his new SCREAM module with children and young people in Uganda and Nepal. The SCREAM programme uses the arts to educate children about their rights with respect to all forms of work. The exercises include role-plays, creative writing, drawing and painting, theatre projects, debates and so on. This is an experimental approach to the rehabilitation of children traumatised by violence and abuse and, as with all such programmes, needs generalising and building on, involving a programme to train trainers, including teachers, advocates, and peer educators, who can take the ideas and the material into communities to raise the level of awareness of the issues involved.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements and dedication vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- List of abbreviations xiii
- List of boxes, figures, tables and photos xv
- Introduction: Child slavery worldwide 1
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Strategic overviews
- Child slavery today 21
- Constructing the international legal framework 43
- Just out of reach: the challenges of ending the worst forms of child labour 61
- Child domestic labour: a global concern 81
- Child trafficking: a modern form of slavery 99
- Clarity and consistency in understanding child exploitation: a UK perspective 117
- A human rights approach to preventing child sex trafficking 133
- Child rights, culture and exploitation: UK experiences of child trafficking 145
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Themes, issues and case studies
- Preventing child trafficking in India: the role of education 163
- Birth registration: a tool for prevention, protection and prosecution 175
- ‘Bienvenue chez les grands!’: young migrant cigarette vendors in Marseille 189
- Child domestic labour: fostering in transition? 203
- Extreme forms of child labour in Turkey 215
- Haliya and kamaiya bonded child labourers in Nepal 227
- Sex trafficking in Nepal 243
- The role of the arts in resisting recruitment as child soldiers and ‘wives’: experience from Uganda and Nepal 257
- International adoption and child trafficking in Ecuador 271
- Child slavery in South and South East Asia 285
- Routes to child slavery in Central America 297
- Resources 307
- The end of child slavery? 317
- Index 327
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements and dedication vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- List of abbreviations xiii
- List of boxes, figures, tables and photos xv
- Introduction: Child slavery worldwide 1
-
Strategic overviews
- Child slavery today 21
- Constructing the international legal framework 43
- Just out of reach: the challenges of ending the worst forms of child labour 61
- Child domestic labour: a global concern 81
- Child trafficking: a modern form of slavery 99
- Clarity and consistency in understanding child exploitation: a UK perspective 117
- A human rights approach to preventing child sex trafficking 133
- Child rights, culture and exploitation: UK experiences of child trafficking 145
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Themes, issues and case studies
- Preventing child trafficking in India: the role of education 163
- Birth registration: a tool for prevention, protection and prosecution 175
- ‘Bienvenue chez les grands!’: young migrant cigarette vendors in Marseille 189
- Child domestic labour: fostering in transition? 203
- Extreme forms of child labour in Turkey 215
- Haliya and kamaiya bonded child labourers in Nepal 227
- Sex trafficking in Nepal 243
- The role of the arts in resisting recruitment as child soldiers and ‘wives’: experience from Uganda and Nepal 257
- International adoption and child trafficking in Ecuador 271
- Child slavery in South and South East Asia 285
- Routes to child slavery in Central America 297
- Resources 307
- The end of child slavery? 317
- Index 327
