Abstract
In a unique proposal to the United Nations Security Council, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommended that a Juvenile Chamber of the Special Court have authority to try defendants as young as fifteen. The plan sparked immediate controversy. Sierra Leoneans wanted the worst perpetrators punished regardless of age, while human rights organizations argued that juvenile prosecutions would weaken rehabilitative efforts. The Security Council subsequently diluted the proposal; nevertheless, it merits examination, given the increasing use, in Africa and around the world, of children in combat.
Repository Citation
Diane Marie Amann,
Calling Children to Account: The Proposal for a Juvenile Chamber in the Special Court for Sierra Leone
(2001),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/660
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