Child soldiers
- Measures to avoid the recruitment of child soldiers in West Africa
- This report looks at the experiences of children living in conflict situations, and focuses on strategies to prevent the recruitment of children into armed groups. Following interviews and discussions with around 200 children and 300 parents and carers in Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone, it highlights a number of preventative strategies used by children, families and communities.
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Refugee girls in states affected by armed conflict
- ( Women's Refugee Commission , 2009)
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More than 140 million girls live in fragile states affected by armed conflict. As they flee from war, girls face many dangers, including rape, landmines, gunfire and hunger. They may be recruited i...
- Addressing the security needs of children and young people
- ( D. Nosworthy (ed) / Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces , 2009)
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Security sector reform (SSR) is increasingly being seen as a key component of post-conflict reconstruction. This is due to the recognition that for there to be an emergence of a fair and equitable ...
- Female combatants in African wars
- ( C. Coulter;M. Persson;M. Utas / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala , 2008)
- Young women are not only combatants in contemporary African wars, they also participate in a whole array of different roles. By and large, though they remain invisible in these contexts to northern po...
- Protection problems for displaced children
- ( L. Perez / Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre , 2008)
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Internally displaced children in Central African Republic (CAR) face severe protection problems from ongoing insecurity and violence. Many have been recruited into the armed forces, kidnapped, and ...
- Children in the Chhattisgarh conflict
- ( Child Rights Information Network , 2008)
- This report updates information on the use of children by all parties to the conflict in India’s Chhattisgarh state, the harm they have suffered, and the adverse impact of the conflict on childr...
- Voices from children and youth abducted by the LRA, Uganda
- ( V. Chrobok;A.S. Akutu;L Dowdney (ed) / Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers , 2008)
- In the course of the 21-year armed conflict between the government of Uganda and the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), in northern Uganda, thousands of children and youth have been abducted by the LRA...
- Programmes targeting displaced and returning populations in Nepal
- ( The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children / Women's Refugee Commission , 2008)
- In 1996, an armed Maoist insurgency grew out of the Communist Party of Nepal and resulted in 10 years of conflict, human rights violations perpetrated by both the government and the Maoists, and large...
- Understanding the situation of child soldiers around the world
- ( Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers , 2008)
- This report contains detailed information on child soldier recruitment and use in 197 countries. It also, where relevant, provides information regarding disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration p...
Developing a framework for organisations working on the reintegration of child soldiers
- ( V. Thomas / Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers , 2008)
- Y Care International’s experience working with at-risk and vulnerable children and young people in Colombia, including child soldiers, has made apparent the need to share lessons learned and goo...
- Why include girls in post-conflict programmes?
- ( M. Denov / Capacity Development Web Site, Canadian International Development Agency , 2007)
- This paper examines the experiences of girls in armed conflict. Focusing on the extent to which girls are marginalised during and following armed conflict, it traces the perspectives of girls as victi...
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