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Rebels deny recruiting child soldiers | News24

A Sudanese rebel group has denied United States accusations that it recruits child soldiers and maintains a military presence in a refugee camp in South Sudan.

U.S. asks Sudan rebels to stop recruiting refugee child soldiers| Reuters

JUBA (Reuters) - The United States is urging Sudanese rebels to stop recruiting soldiers from among children and other civilians in refugee camps across the border in South Sudan, a U.S. official said

Islamists in Mali paying for child soldiers

“Once you’ve taken the money and eaten, it’s a done deal,” “You’re there until you die, or the war is over.”

Ex-child-soldier: 'Shooting became just like drinking a glass of water' - CNN.com

As a teenager in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah was brainwashed, drugged and forced to kill. Now he works to rehabilitate child soldiers.

Mali Islamists 'buying child soldiers for £375' - Telegraph

Islamists who have taken over northern Mali are "buying child soldiers" from their families for £375 and compiling a "frightening" list of unmarried women who are pregnant or had borne children, according to senior UN official.

Ending the Use of Child Soldiers: One Step Forward

Amnesty International is the world's largest human rights organization, and our model of grassroots campaigning achieves remarkable results on issues from women's human rights to the death penalty.

Red Cross volunteers offer mental health recovery to Congo child soldiers | WNN – Women News Network

Activist's Journey To Life: Day 175: Child Soldiers

Monday, October 8, 2012

4 Nations With Child Soldiers Keep U.S. Aid - NYTimes.com

The Obama administration is allowing military aid to continue to four countries, issuing a waiver of the 2008 law, the Child Soldiers Prevention Act.

Mali Islamists recruit hundreds of child soldiers, pay desperate parents thousands of dollars - The Washington Post

MOPTI, Mali — Salif Haidara sat drinking tea on the side of the road with other weary bus passengers when a man with a turban and a long beard approached them: Did they want to become holy warriors?

Mali: Alarming New Reports Of Amputations And Child Soldiers

Amnesty International is the world's largest human rights organization, and our model of grassroots campaigning achieves remarkable results on issues from women's human rights to the death penalty.

Painting a Future of Peace with Former Child Soldiers | Indiegogo

A multi-media artistic expression and documentary created by social artist Jeremy Cowart involving former child soldiers in Uganda.

Rights Group: Mali Islamists Using Child Soldiers

Children are carrying out military role, enforcing militants' brutal Islamic law - like beating women for not covering their heads

Painting a Future of Peace with Former Child Soldiers | Indiegogo

A multi-media artistic expression and documentary created by social artist Jeremy Cowart involving former child soldiers in Uganda.

International Childcare Trust | Home

UN split over children and armed conflict | News24

Four countries have abstained from a UN Security Council vote on children and armed conflict over concerns that the UN envoy can probe any conflict, not just those before the council.

Praise for post-conflict Africa's war on child mortality - Channel 4 News

As Unicef releases figures showing that more children now survive their fifth birthday than ever before, a charity praises the efforts of two post-conflict African nations on child mortality targets.

Praise for post-conflict Africa's war on child mortality - Channel 4 News

As Unicef releases figures showing that more children now survive their fifth birthday than ever before, a charity praises the efforts of two post-conflict African nations on child mortality targets.

Al Shabaab branches out beyond Somalia | GlobalPost

Al Shabaab branches out beyond Somalia. Rising from the chaos of Somalia, Al Shabaab has become Africa’s most dangerous and far-reaching Al Qaeda affiliate.

Syrian conflict and child brides dominate French photojournalism awards - France - RFI

Photographs on the violence in Syria, child brides in South-East Asia and health issues in Russia have taken out prestigious awards at a major photojournalism festival in France.  

Supporting Children Born of Conflict Rape in DRC

In South Kivu, DRC, there are thousands of children born from conflict rape. Bahati Valérie spoke with some of the mothers: We must love our children; they are our children in their innocence.

Joseph Kony: Sex slave abducted for eight years by Ugandan warlord's army | Mail Online

Grace Achan was one of 30 girls kidnapped from St Mary's Covent in Aboke, northern Uganda, in 1996 and taken to a Joseph Kony resistance army camp in Sudan to become a sex slave for its commanders.

IPS – Q&A: Rescuing Child Soldiers in CAR | Inter Press Service

Q&A: Rescuing Child Soldiers in CAR - Kristin Palitza interviews ISHMAEL BEAH, former Sierra Leonean child soldier, human rights activist and best-sel

ICC jails DRC warlord over child soldiers - Africa - Al Jazeera English

DR Congo's Thomas Lubanga given 14 years in International Criminal Court's first-ever sentencing in decade of operation.

Why They Rape: Former DRC Child Soldier Speaks Out

COFAPRI co-founder, Bahati Valérie, recently spent time visiting the rural villages in eastern DR Congo, and talking with survivors of conflict rape. Shortly afterwards, she met one of her old friends in Buvaku. In their exchange regarding...

U.S. Must Enforce Ban on Child Soldiers | Human Rights Watch

The State Department’s new list of governments using child soldiers is out. Seven countries are named this year. The list is not that surprising: It includes the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma and South Sudan, which have deployed child...

United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict | To promote and protect the rights of all children affected by armed conflict

Somalia Signs Action Plan on Killing and Maiming of Children in Armed Conflict

Child Soldiers | Amnesty International USA

There are hundreds of thousands of child soldiers worldwide. Amnesty International works to end the recruitment of children as soldiers.

Kony, Lubanga and Taylor are just the tip of the iceberg - Los Angeles Times

Last week in The Hague, the International Criminal Court, or ICC, found the Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga guilty of recruiting and using child soldiers in the armed conflict in that country,

Child labour and armed conflict

Children associated with armed forces and groups

Former Boy Soldier Turns Olympian | Care2 Causes

A profile of a South Sudanese former boy soldier who now competes on the U.S. Olympic track and field team.Lomong, who grew up in a rural Sudanese village, was 6 years old when a group of soldiers stormed a church service he was attending with his...

‘From a child soldier to the rap game’ | Arts & Entertainment | Whistler Question, Whistler, BC

Jal has every reason to escape his past. His tragic history has been well documented, including in a 2008 documentary, War Child, and an autobiography of the same name. He lost his mother at the age of seven, when soldiers loyal to the government...

Former Sierra Leone child soldier helps other victims - Los Angeles Times

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - When Ishmael Beah looked at the dazed faces of child soldiers in the Central African Republic, dark memories rose inside him.He'd been in a similar situation as a

U.N.: Over 435,000 displaced, children forced to fight in Mali - latimes.com

As Mali remains wracked by infighting and has failed to reverse a takeover of the north, the number of people pushed out of their homes has soared and more children are being recruited as fighters, United Nations agencies warn.

Former Child Soldier Helping War-Affected Children in Africa

Nearly 20 years after being child soldier in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah hopes to stop the cycle