"The military recruitment of children […] still takes place in one form or another in at least 86 countries and territories worldwide. This includes unlawful recruitment by armed groups, forcible recruitment by government forces, recruitment or use of children into militias or other groups associated with armed forces, their use as spies, as well as legal recruitment into peacetime armies."
(Coalition to stop the use of child soldiers,
Child soldiers: Global report 2008, visited 2008-08-30)
The use of children as soldiers has been condemned as a violation of children's rights.