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Child Soldiers
AIUSA's campaign for the rights of children under 18 who are serving in the military or who are abducted to help armed opposition groups.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/children/soldiers/
Impact of Armed Conflict on Children:Child Soldiers
Extract from the report of Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary-Geneal of the UN
http://www.un.org/rights/concerns.htm#soldiers
Children and War
International Committee of the Red Cross information on the fate of children caught up in the turmoil of conflict.Includes information on children, war and humanitarian law.
http://www.icrc.org/eng/children
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Nonprofit activist group working to stop the recruitment of children in war.
http://www.child-soldiers.org/
Child Soldier Use 2003
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.
http://hrw.org/reports/2004/childsoldiers0104/
Child and Young Adult Soldiers
Provides facts and information on child soldiers including international policy guidelines, methods and practices and relevant worldwide organisations.
http://www.ginie.org/ginie-crises-links/childsoldiers/
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: Global Report
The most recent and comprehensive study to date on the use of child soldiers globally.
http://www.child-soldiers.org/cs/childsoldiers.nsf/Report?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expand=2#2
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict: Child Soldiers
Website of the office of the UN Special Represntative of the Secretary -General for Children in Armed Conflict focusing on child soldiers.
http://www.un.org/special-rep/children-armed-conflict/English/ChildSoldiers.html
Human Rights Watch: Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Information and accounts of the use of child soldiers.
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/
Child rights information network: Armed Conflict
An information base for current news and documents on children in armed conflict including child soldiers.
http://www.crin.org/themes/viewTheme.asp?ID=11&name=Armed+conflict
UNICEF: Impact of Armed Conflict on Children
Full text of and other information surrounding the official report produced by Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.
http://www.unicef.org/graca/
University of Essex: Children and Armed Conflict Unit
Provides up-to-date information, reports and documents on the impact of armed conflicts on children including child soldiers.
http://www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/default.htm
Reluctant Recruits: Children and Adults Forcibly Recruited for Military Service in N. Kivu (Congo)
Human Rights Watch report (29 May 2001)points to the continued recruitment of children by the major Congolese rebel group.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/drc3/
International Federation Terre des Hommes: The Lost Childhood
Brief description of the global use of children in war and the activities of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers.
http://www.terredeshommes.org/en/activities/thema3.asp
Child Soldiers Resources
Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide.
http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_soldiers.html
The Centre for Defense Information's Children and Armed Conflict Project
Provides information (written and visual) on the global use of child soldiers.
http://www.cdi.org/atp/childsoldiers/
Operation: Stop Inciting Children to Kill
Focuses particularly on the use of children in the Middle East conflict.The site consists of reports, factsheets, articles and a petition against the use child combatants.
http://www.operationsick.com
Radio Netherlands: Child Soldiers of Liberia
Provides information about the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war (1989-1997).
http://www.rnw.nl/en/liberia/index.html
Government of Canada: Child Soldiers
Provides details of the recruitment and use of children in adult wars in a question and answer format.
http://www.cfp-pec.gc.ca/NationalForum/elementary/english/childSoldiers/
International Labour Organization:The Reintegration of War-Affected Youth - The Experience of Mozambique
Publication on skills development and training for war-affected youth after civil war in Mozambique.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/skills/training/publ/pub13.htm
Children in Armed Conflict Unit: Child Soldiers
Offers a list of international laws and standards, articles, conferences and other information on the global use of child soldiers.
http://www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/Issues/Future/menu/childsoldiers.htm
Save the Children: Child Soldier Campaign
Provides brief analysis and information on the participation of children in modern day conflicts.
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/campaigns/globalview/soldiers.html
Using Children in Armed Conflict: A Legitimate African Tradition?
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.
http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No32/Contents.html
Global March Against Child Labour: Child Soldiers
Recommends relevant publications, provides articles and information about child soldiers.
http://www.globalmarch.org/childsoldier/
Rädda Barnen: Child War Database
Save the Children Sweden's documentation centre on child soldiers.
http://www.rb.se/www/eng/Programme/Childreninarmed/Childsoldiers/
You'll Learn Not To Cry: Child Combatants in Colombia
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.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/colombia0903/
BBC News - Child Soldiers: Children of Conflict
Most of the victims are obviously boys. Listen to child soldiers, wounded, lost and working children tell their stories in sound files.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/childrenofconflict/soldier.shtml
SOS Children's Villages - Aid Orientated Towards The Future
Learn about this aid organization offering continuous care to former child soldiers ravaged by war in Uganda.
http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/cgi-bin/sos/jsp/retrieve.do?lang=en&site=ZZ&nav=5.3&cat=%2F5.3.4_optional_sub_4&ed=27082
Child Soldiers
American Friends Service Committee's web page that provides information, news, and analysis on child soldiers around the world.
http://www.afsc.org/issues/index/childso.asp
How to Fight, How to Kill: Child Soldiers in Liberia
Documents the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war and offers recommendations on reintegrating these children into civil society.
http://hrw.org/reports/2004/liberia0204/
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