{"id":861,"date":"2013-06-12T11:29:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T11:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.58\/~transjc8\/ti\/?p=861"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:28:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:28:05","slug":"vestibulum-ante-ipsum-primis-in-faucibus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transitioninternational.com\/ti\/vestibulum-ante-ipsum-primis-in-faucibus\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 4 Woman&#8217;s Hour: Girl soldiers, do they choose to fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kyabvbnq-74427ce61729ab333134a1f2e936bb75 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>There are an estimated three hundred thousand child soldiers, some as young as seven. Most of them are boys, but a significant number are girls. The conventional wisdom about child soldiers is that they&#8217;re taken from their families by force. But a UN report says many girls living in conflict zones actually choose to take up arms and fight. We hear from Aimerance who became a soldier at just 14. Jenni will also speak to the author of the report,\u00a0Irma Specht and to Liesbeth Speelman from the charity War Child.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/womanshour\/01\/2006_33_thu.shtml\">Listen on BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitioninternational.com\/ti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitioninternational.com\/ti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitioninternational.com\/ti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitioninternational.com\/ti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitioninternational.com\/ti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitioninternational.com\/ti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3791,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitioninternational.com\/ti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/3791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitioninternational.com\/ti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitioninternational.com\/ti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitioninternational.com\/ti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}