detaining children

• Since 2002, the U.S. has “detained approximately 2,500 people younger than 18 as illegal enemy combatants in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay,” according to a report filed by the Bush administration with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Though roughly 2,400 of the underage detainees were captured in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, only about 500 of them still remain in custody.

(Think Progress)