Name: Big Think Interview with Jo Becker
Uploaded: 2009-11-17T20:41:00-05:00
Duration: 24 min 14 s

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Jo Becker founded the International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and was a leading advocate for the international treaty prohibiting the use of child combatants, adopted by[…]

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