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UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Vanessa Frazier urged the Taliban to end child recruitment in Afghanistan and to set the age of adulthood at 18, in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Frazier told VOA that the Taliban's definition of a child should align with the convention, and that physical signs of puberty cannot replace a fixed legal age. The UN has raised growing concern over the group's recruitment and use of children.