"In 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 38, proclaimed: "State parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that persons who have not attained the age of 15 years do not take a direct part in hostilities." However, children who are over the age of 15 but under the age of 18 are still voluntarily able to take part in combat as soldiers. "

"Kelly Ellard is scheduled to appear this morning at her first hearing for day parole since her conviction for beating and drowning 14-year-old Reena Virk near a Victoria bridge nearly two decades ago.Ellard was 15 in November 1997, when she smashed Virk's head into a tree and held her underwater until she stopped moving."

Ms Ellard was tried as an adult and has been in prision for 18 years . Mr. Khadr was never a child soldier .