Hugo Ñopo’s opinion in The Washington Post on the announcement of compulsory military service for NEETs
In regard of President Castillo’s proposal to make military service compulsory for young people who are neither working nor studying, Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, warns that two thirds of those likely to be eligible for military service would actually be women, and that a draft could lead to the abuse of indigenous and other vulnerable conscripts. “This is a bad solution to a misdiagnosed problem”, Ñopo said. “More than anything else, it’s a gender issue”. Read The Washignton Post’s full article here.
