Human Rights Watch estimates that more than 11,000 children fight in Colombiaâs armed conflict, one of the highest totals in the world. At least one of every four irregular combatants in Colombia is under 18 years of age. Several thousand of them are under the age of 15, the minimum age permitted for recruitment into armed forces or groups under the Geneva Conventions. To help address the problem, Human Rights Watch called on the Colombian Congress to ratify and implement the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict.
S Corporations. S corporations are corporations that elect to pass corporate income, losses, deductions, and credits through to their shareholders for federal tax purposes. Shareholders of S corporations report the flow-through of income and losses on their personal tax returns and are assessed tax at their individual income tax rates.
One of the more popular electrical services that is supplied to medium-size commercial buildings is the Wye or Star configuration. The name comes from the transformerâs secondary winding configuration, which looks like a âYâ or three-sided star (Figure 1).