Rough estimates indicate that hundreds of children, some as young as 9 or 10, are being conscripted.
Davis spends her time today on a non-profit that fights sex trafficking of women who are being conscripted into a life of prostitution.
To make his case, he simply punctuated the visual images with a short repeated question: "This one?, This one?, This one?" To convict Lubanga of war crimes, the Office of the Prosecutor needed to prove that children under the age of 15 were being conscripted and enlisted.
In Suruc, a few days later, Hennan Muhammed told me how IS had taken his son hostage while he was travelling to Iraq to avoid being conscripted by Syria in the war.
"Why are we being conscripted?
In stories about why people emigrate, like the one told by Nicholas Schmidle last month in The New Yorker, one reason young men give as a motivating factor for leaving their countries is the fear of being conscripted by one side or the other.
Murphy, who was 12 when the family emigrated, decided to return to Scotland at the age of 18 when he was faced with the prospect of being conscripted into the army of apartheid South Africa.
At the time, many children were being coerced and conscripted to serve in conflict -- forced to witness, endure, and contribute to unimaginable violence.
I was in the army, having been conscripted while under contract to MGM.
Back in their flat, Ralph heard a radio announcement that all boys of his age - he was now 16 - were to be conscripted into the Belgian army, currently being shot to pieces a few miles away.
