Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide.
Provides information about the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war (1989-1997).
Provides details of the recruitment and use of children in adult wars in a question and answer format.
Publication on skills development and training for war-affected youth after civil war in Mozambique.
Offers a list of international laws and standards, articles, conferences and other information on the global use of child soldiers.
A monograph by T.W. Bennett on the history and efforts to criminalise recruitment of child soldiers, from the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa.
More than 11,000 children fight in Colombia's armed conflict, one of the highest totals in the world. Both guerrilla and paramilitary forces rely on child combatants, who have committed atrocities and are even made to execute other children who try to desert.
Learn about this aid organization offering continuous care to former child soldiers ravaged by war in Uganda.
Documents the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war and offers recommendations on reintegrating these children into civil society.
Documents the deployment of children as combatants, to commit abuses against civilians, as sex slaves, forced labourers, messengers, informants and servants in continuing and newly erupting conflicts.
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