The worst impact of the armed conflict has been shadowed on the child.
Unfortunately, this impact happened to child in Yemen. One party in the Yemen
war used child as a soldier. This act is totally against the laws of war. Especially
Yemen has ratified the Geneva Conventions 1949, the Additional Protocols of the
Geneva Conventions 1977, the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989, the
Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child Related Child
Involvement In Armed Conflict 2002. In this research, specific discusses about
child soldiers in armed conflict in Yemen. The purpose of this research is to know
the form of legal protection against child soldier. It’s a normative legal research; a
research to examine the implementation of positive law. Child soldier in armed
conflict in Yemen are not included as legitimate combatants under the
International Humanitarian Law, because the Geneva Conventions set that
basically children are belong to the civilian groups, therefore they must be
protected. In the case of the child had already forced to be a soldier then when
he/she was captured by the opposing party, the child soldier must be protected by
his/her rights as a child and not as a prisoner of war