Baby Soldiers In Space

by Rena Marks
Baby Soldiers In Space
Author: Rena Marks
Publisher: Rena Marks
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2017-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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The Space Babies saga has been determined: They're people, not pets. Continue on the journey with Baby Soldiers In Space. Helian Six has it made. Their own planet, lifemates, and kids. Not bad for a species who were born in vats—to emerge full grown with designated careers dependent upon specifically implanted personality traits. What used to be friendly competition has turned into jealousy, and everyone is scrambling to be accepted onto their planet to live the good life. Now, the Helian Six crew, with their updated promotions, can afford to be picky about who goes or stays. However, a personal request from the Supreme Commander has all but ordered acceptance of a new breed of female. The leader, with her steadfast ways, nurturing heart, and fuzzy unibrow, has caught the Ambassador's finicky eye. The poor crew members of Helian Six have been warned to give these refugee females everything they may need. Unfortunately, they can't share with their hormonally moody mates as to why they're giving extra attention to the hairy bunch. * This is book 2 in the Purple People Series. What's gone on before: The crew of Helian Six found a stasis capsule in space with waking inhabitants. There were nineteen tiny purple beings aboard—to match his crew of nineteen warriors. It was a sign they needed to find mates and rear the small ones. It worked out to their advantage that a passing vessel contained nineteen teachers of the species Human and needed kidnapping. Er, rescuing. Those sexy teachers agreed to stay with our humble Freijian warriors. And that is our story to date! Other books in this series: Book 1 - Space Babies Book 2 - Baby Soldiers In Space Book 3 - Baby Butterfly Kisses Book 4 - TiTi Book 5 - Rock-A-Bye Babies in Space

Space Babies

by Rena Marks
Space Babies
Author: Rena Marks
Publisher: Rena Marks
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Are they pets or people? An antiquated ship, rotating through the galaxy of a deserted planet, bears immediate investigation. Helian Six boards the abandoned vessel to find the long-lost inhabitants in a state of stasis. But the systems are failing, and half a dozen have woken up. The planet below shows long dead bodies, poisoned by the scum of space, a species known as Gorgians. Strangely, the few who have awakened are much smaller than their planetary predecessors. And not very intelligent. Determined to believe the cute, tiny beings are not pets, the crew of Helian Six decides to train the small warriors to defend the planet. They become the laughingstock of patrol, however, after they commit and realize it will take twenty-two cycles to “rear” the inhabitants. So they do what any intelligent males would do. Kidnap teachers. And if the females can’t manage to avert their eyes from their buff physiques, well, score! Book 1 - Space Babies Book 2 - Baby Soldiers in Space Book 3 - Baby Butterfly Kisses Book 4 - Titi Book 5 - Rock-a-bye Babies In Space

Public Hearings on International Child Labor

by United States. International Child Labor Program
Public Hearings on International Child Labor
Author: United States. International Child Labor Program
Publisher:
Total Pages: 732
Release: 1998
Genre: Child labor
ISBN:
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Provides information regarding the use of abusive or exploitative child labour in the production of goods imported into the United States. Comprises written and oral testimony submitted by the U.S. garment importers, their subsidiaries, contractors and their subcontractors, U.S. companies, associations, international and nongovernmental organizations. Includes written statements on child labour policy presented for the record by embassies and government agencies of 45 developed and developing countries.

Research Handbook on Child Soldiers

by Mark A. Drumbl
Research Handbook on Child Soldiers
Author: Mark A. Drumbl
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2019
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1788114485
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Child soldiers remain poorly understood and inadequately protected, despite significant media attention and many policy initiatives. This Research Handbook aims to redress this troubling gap. It offers a reflective, fresh and nuanced review of the complex issue of child soldiering. The Handbook brings together scholars from six continents, diverse experiences, and a broad range of disciplines. Along the way, it unpacks the life-cycle of youth and militarization: from recruitment to demobilization to return to civilian life. The overarching aim of the Handbook is to render the invisible visible – the contributions map the unmapped and chart new directions. Challenging prevailing assumptions and conceptions, the Research Handbook on Child Soldiers focuses on adversity but also capacity: emphasising the resilience, humanity, and potentiality of children affected (rather than ‘afflicted’) by armed conflict.

Child Soldiers

by Michael Wessells
Child Soldiers
Author: Michael Wessells
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2009-03-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0674032551
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Compelling and humane, this book reveals the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world, challenging stereotypes of them as predators or a lost generation. Kidnapped or lured by the promise of food, protection, revenge, or a better life, children serve not only as combatants but as porters, spies, human land mine detectors, and sexual slaves. Nearly one-third are girls, and Michael Wessells movingly reveals the particular dangers they face from pregnancy, childbirth complications, and the rejection they and their babies encounter in their local contexts. Based mainly on participatory research and interviews with hundreds of former child soldiers worldwide, Wessells allows these ex-soldiers to speak for themselves and reveal the enormous complexity of their experiences and situations. The author argues that despite the social, moral, and psychological wounds of war, a surprising number of former child soldiers enter civilian life, and he describes the healing, livelihood, education, reconciliation, family integration, protection, and cultural supports that make it possible. A passionate call for action, Child Soldiers pushes readers to go beyond the horror stories to develop local and global strategies to stop this theft of childhood.

Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives

by Ademola Adesola
Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives
Author: Ademola Adesola
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2024-09-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1666954500
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In Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives, Ademola Adesola examines the dominant factors that writers privilege in their portrayals of child soldiering in sub-Saharan Africa. In his textual-interpretive analyses of selected novels in the African child soldier genre, Adesola contends that critical discussions of African child soldier literature have depended on the interpretive frameworks supplied by Western humanitarian discourses which oversimplify and de-historicize experiences of war in Africa. The author argues that such reductive decontextualization of war realities serve to champion a narrow vision of war in African contexts centered on a moral and humanitarian urge for Western intervention. Regardless of whether the casus belli legitimating those wars are genuine or not, those conflicts (and children’s involvement in them) are understood within the same racist colonial and ethnocentric stereotypes about Africa that have been privileged in Western thought and the Western moral-political imagination for centuries. Thus, in studying African child soldier narratives, this book provides an alternative reading of novels whose settings feature African ethnopolitical conflicts – such as in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria – notable for their exploitation of children for military ends. The author maintains that these works are significant in the varying ways they reify and challenge the Western ideas of “child” and “childhood,” as well as privilege child soldiers as social actors whose intricate makeups disavow being simply understood as innocent victims or irredeemable perpetrators of atrocities.

Child Soldiers in Africa

by Alcinda Honwana
Child Soldiers in Africa
Author: Alcinda Honwana
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2011-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0812204778
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Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp the fundamentals of morality. It has been only in the past ten years that this component of warfare has captured the attention of the world. Images of boys carrying guns and ammunition are now commonplace as they flash across television screens and appear on the front pages of newspapers. Less often, but equally disturbingly, stories of girls pressed into the service of militias surface in the media. A major concern today is how to reverse the damage done to the thousands of children who have become not only victims but also agents of wartime atrocities. In Child Soldiers in Africa, Alcinda Honwana draws on her firsthand experience with children of Angola and Mozambique, as well as her study of the phenomenon for the United Nations and the Social Science Research Council, to shed light on how children are recruited, what they encounter, and how they come to terms with what they have done. Honwana looks at the role of local communities in healing and rebuilding the lives of these children. She also examines the efforts undertaken by international organizations to support these wartime casualties and enlightens the reader on the obstacles faced by such organizations.