UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Speaks to Press After Security Counci Briefing

Forest Whitaker, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Peace and Reconciliation, speaks to the media after briefing the Security Council on his latest trip to South Sudan. At the Security Council meeting, which was focused on the Secretary-General's latest report on children and armed conflict, Mr. Whitaker reported on the child soldiers he saw in the cities wearing military uniforms and carrying guns, and suggested that, ""We may take a child out of an army, but unless we do more for him – help him re-enter society, enrol him in a good school, teach him a useful trade – we have not set him free.""