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    Abduction: the Lord's Resistance Army and forced conscription in Northern Uganda

    Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
    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 serve as sexual and domestic servants and fighters were forced to inflict horrific injuries on defenceless civilians. Children and youth have been forced to mutilate and kill civilians.
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    Sudan’s children at a crossroads: an urgent need for protection

    Watchlist/Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, 2007
    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 Conflict.
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    Child recruitment in South Asian conflicts: Bangladesh

    Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 2007
    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 recommendations on children’s situation in Bangladesh from the report: Child Recruitment in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.
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    Child soldiers in Sierra Leone: experiences, implications and strategies for reintegration

    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 Sierra Leone.
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    Complicit in crime: state collusion in abductions and child recruitment by the Karuna Group

    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, this report argues.This report sets out the evidence from interviews with the parents of abducted children, witnesses, and local and international organisations that government security forces are no
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    Children in the ranks: the Maoists’ use of child soldiers in Nepal

    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 recruit them.
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    A childhood lost?: the challenges of successful disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of child soldiers: the case of West Africa

    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 reintegration (DDR) of child soldiers, with reference to DDR processes in West Africa, and suggests how such problems can be overcome.
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    The consequences of child soldiering

    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.
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    Victims, perpetrators or heroes?: child soldiers before the International Criminal Court

    Redress Trust, 2006
    The International Criminal Court broke new ground by charging Ugandan and Congolese warlords with recruiting or using children in hostilities.
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    The girl child and armed conflict: recognizing and addressing grave violations of girls’ human rights

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    To support efforts to strengthen and develop policy and programmes to prevent and or address the grave rights violations against girls in conflict situations, this paper documents and analyses some of these violations. It discusses existing international initiatives and reviews the most pertinent international legal standards relating to these violations.

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