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Searching with a thematic focus on Children and young people, Child soldiers, Conflict and security

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  Re-examining voluntarism: youth combatants in Sierra Leone

  Institute for Security Studies, 2004

  Challenges the view of child soldiers as ‘victims’, unwilling conscripts who have been forced to fight, and argues that economic, educational and socio-political conditions result in children voluntarily choosing to become soldiers.Based on interviews with Sierra Leonean youth ex-combatants, it analyses the most important reasons for children and young people choosing to join the army or rebel
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  How to fight, how to kill: child soldiers in Liberia

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This report explores the human rights situation of child soldiers in Liberia through a series of interviews with former and current child soldiers undertaken in the country in late 2003.The report argues that approximately 15,000 boys and girls under the age of eighteen, some as young as nine and ten years old, were involved in the fighting in Liberia.
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  Guide to the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2003

  This guide is a practical tool aimed to support child rights advocates, including government officials, child protection agencies, humanitarian workers and those involved in national coalitions, in their efforts to ensure ratification of, or accession to, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the treaty’s full implementation.The guide contains essential informat
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  Cambodia: Pol Pot’s legacy of violence

  Youth Advocate Program International, 2001

  This paper offers background to the reign of the Khmer Rouge, and the impact of this rule on the children of Cambodia. It discusses the issue of child soldiers and of the long term legacy of small arms, landmines and mental health of war affected children.The paper demonstrates that child soldiers did not receive any kind of reintegration services.
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  The impact of armed conflict on children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

  Watchlist/Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, 2003

  This paper argues that the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), fuelled by exploitation of natural resources and power struggles, is having an untold impact on exploitation of children.
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  Child soldiers in Africa: solutions to a complex dilemma

  African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2002

  In recent years, the use of child soldiers by both government forces and insurgent groups in some African countries has been harshly condemned by the international community.
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  "My gun was as tall as me": child soldiers in Burma

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This report is based on research conducted by Human Rights Watch in Thailand and border areas of Burma between February and July 2002.
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  Adult wars, child soldiers

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  This report is an effort to draw attention to the reality of child soldiers in the East Asia and Pacific region, to demonstrate the need for an urgent response.
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  Democratic Republic of the Congo: reluctant recruits: children and adults forcibly recruited for military service in North Kivu

  Human Rights Watch, 2001

  Documents an intensive campaign of forcible recruitment of adults and children begun by RCD-Goma and its Rwandan allies in the last quarter of 2000. The paper asserts that the major rebel group in eastern Congo continues to recruit children to wage war against the Congolese government.

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