Antigua and Barbuda

Covers the period from April 2001 to March 2004.

Population: 73,000 (25,000 under 18)
Government armed forces: 170
Compulsory recruitment age: no conscription
Voluntary recruitment age: 18
Voting age: 18
Optional Protocol: not signed
Other treaties ratified (see glossary): CRC, AP I and II, ICC, ILO 138, ILO 182

There were no reports of under-18s in the security forces.

Government

National recruitment legislation and practice

There is no conscription in Antigua and Barbuda.1 The minimum age of enlistment to the armed forces and the police is 18.2

1 Civil and political rights, including the question of conscientious objection to military service, Report of the UN Secretary-General to UN Commission on Human Rights, UN Doc. E/CN.4/2000/55, 17 December 1999, http://www.ohchr.org.

2 Initial report of Antigua and Barbuda to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, UN Doc. CRC/C/28/Add.22, 9 December 2003, http://www.ohchr.org.

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