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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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...
- The Lord’s Resistance Army and abductions in Northern Uganda
- ( P. Pham;P. Vinck;E. Stover / Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley , 2007)
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Since the late 1980s, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group in Uganda, has abducted tens of thousands of children and adults to serve as porters and soldiers. Girls were forced to s...
- Can Chad stop recruiting child soldiers?
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2007)
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This document critically examines the recruitment of child soldiers in Chad by both the Front Uni pour le Changement (FUC) rebels and the government. It also takes a look at the international respo...
- Action is needed now to stop children being killed, tortured and raped in Sudan
- ( Watchlist/Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict , 2007)
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This report presents information on violations against children in Sudan in each of the major categories identified by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1612 on Children and Armed Conf...
- Reducing children’s vulnerability to recruitment as child soldiers
- ( Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers , 2007)
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What drives the use of children as soldiers in conflicts, and what do we know about reducing their vulnerability to recruitment? This document presents information, lessons learned and recommendati...
- Examining the experiences of child soldiers in Sierra Leone
- ( D. Myriam / Child Rights Information Network , 2005)
- This document reports on a project that engaged former child soldiers as participant researchers examining the experiences and psychosocial effects of children’s involvement in armed conflict in Sierr...
- Finds that government security forces in Sri Lanka are supporting the forced recruitment of child soldiers
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2007)
- The Sri Lankan government is openly and actively supporting the abduction and forced recruitment of child soldiers into the government-backed Karuna Group that is fighting against the Tamil Tigers, th...
- Peace, but action is needed to secure the release of child soldiers in Nepal
- ( S. Zia-Zarifi / Human Rights Watch , 2007)
- Though a peace agreement was signed between the Nepali government and the Maoist rebel movement in late 2006, Maoist forces have failed to release the children in their ranks and in fact continue to r...
- Reintegrating child soldiers in West Africa
- ( K. Gislesen / Norwegian Institute for International Affairs , 2006)
- After a conflict ends, there is a need to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate child soldiers into society. This report examines the challenges of achieving successful disarmament, demobilisation and re...
