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The Red Hand Campaign: One million red hands against the use of children in wars

Red Hand Symbol. Picture: private
According to the optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child it has been forbidden to use children as soldiers since 12 February 2002. Unfortunately, the number of child soldiers has hardly changed since then. There are still 250,000 children used in the war of the adults.

Children and teenagers have initiated the Red Hand Campaign and appeal to old and young to participate. Send your message on a sheet of paper including your name and your town to the UN politicians. As an expression of your protest, place your hand print with red finger paint on it!

The collective aim of this global campaign: To impress the responsible persons in New York with the huge numbers of red hands and so force them to act!

Please participate!
We ask all organisations, communities, parishes, schools and all individuals to join this protest. Appeal to your partner schools and twin towns in other countries!

We want to present the UN politicians in New York with one million red hands on Red Hand Day 2009 (12th February), the international child soldier's commemoration day. We will make clear that we expect more than a ban - we want it to be enforced. We would like this demand to be supported by big activity events in all towns, cities and countries.

We want the international protest to be noticed: Please place one picture and a report of your red hand activity at http://www.redhandday.org/. There and at the online newspaper http://www.babylon21.org/ you will find plenty of infor-mation about child soldiers and the Red Hand Campaign.

Please send the sheets of paper with the red hands to Kindernothilfe before 8 February 2009, attn. Barbara Dünnweller, Düsseldorfer Landstrasse 180, 47249 Duisburg/Germany.

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Barbara Dünnweller
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