Reintegration of child soldiers
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- 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...
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Training and employment more important than psychosocial rehabilitation for former child soldiers in Uganda
- ( C. Blattman / Households in Conflict Network , 2006)
- What are the long-term effects of child soldiering? This study of northern Uganda finds that only a small percentage of ex-child soldiers experience ongoing psychological trauma. Instead, it suggests ...
- Girls vulnerability to violence during armed conflict or crises
- ( F. T. Holst-Roness / International Committee of the Red Cross , 2006)
- This paper draws attention to the many ways in which girls experience violence during armed conflict or crises, and briefly presents some of the activities carried out by the International Committee o...
- Children in armed conflict in DRC
- ( Watchlist/Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict , 2006)
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This paper reports on the situation of children in the context of DRC’s humanitarian crisis.
In the last few years, some progress has been achieved for children. Thousands of children have been demo...
