Tag: Military recruitment as public health issue
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Tough Times for Military Recruiting
How COVID-19 is impacting the Delayed Entry Program and threatening the health of recruits. By Pat Elder / National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth, NNOMY - June 8, 2020 - Read the Spanish Version COVID-19 has profoundly impacted the way the military finds new soldiers. The recruiting command was caught unprepared to face the pandemic and is facing a challenging new reality. Military ...
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Toxic Problems for Military Recruiters
Gary Ghirardi, OpEd - A campaign by the Earth Democracy Project of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, has given an additional argument to Truth in Recruitment a ...
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Public Health Experts Identify Militarism As Threat
David Swanson - A remarkable article appears in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The authors, experts in public health, are listed with all their academic credentials: Wi ...
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Cessation of Military Recruiting in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
Amy Hagopian & Kathy Barker - Abstract Recruiters for the various US armed forces have free access to our nation’s public high schools, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Military re ...
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Should We End Military Recruiting in High Schools as a Matter of Child Protection and Public Health?
Amy Hagopian, PhD, Kathy Barker, PhD - SINCE ITS ADOPTION IN 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has been ratified more quickly and by more governments than any other human ...
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