The UN has successfully negotiated an Optional Protocol to its 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child,by which States parties agree to ban the participation of children under 18 in armed conflict.

• 联合国通过谈判订立了1989年的《儿童权利公约》的任择议定书，缔约国同意禁止18岁以下的儿童参加武装冲突。