News

News from around the world relating to child soldiers. The Coalition provides this information as a service but does not necessarily agree with the views expressed in material referenced here.

August 2010

BBC: South Sudan to end use of child soldiers
Mizzima: (Myanmar) Border Guard Force accepts children from Democratic Karen Buddhist Army
Oxford University Press USA: To be a child solder
Journal Pioneer: Campaign raises awareness of child soldiers
New American: Somali youths sold to be soldiers
Newsday: Child soldiers 'too hungry' to integrate (in Southern Sudan)
Toronto Star: Omar Khadr trial imperils all child soldiers
ICRC: Democratic Republic of the Congo - former child soldiers going home
Human Rights Watch: CAR/DR Congo - LRA conducts massive abduction campaign
UNICEF: Schools in Southern Sudan offer new hope to children affected by war
UN envoy warns of impications of trial of last child soldier held in Guantanamo
Los Angeles Times: Youngest Guantanamo detainee to stand trial
UNICEF: Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse - documenting abuses while protecting children at risk.

July 2010

BBC: ICC suspends release of DR Congo's Lubanga
Toward Freedom: Sudan - demobilized child soldiers face civilian life
BBC: Darfur JEM rebels sign deal to stop child soldiers (Sudan)
BBC: First ICC accused - DR Congo's Lubanga - 'to be freed'
Al Jazeera: Former child soldiers lack support
Augusta Free Press: Demanding a second chance for Colombia's children of war
The Irrawaddy: Young blood (Burma)
IRIN: "The parents of a child soldier helped me, now I help others." (Burma)
Independent Catholic News: Britain's child soldiers
UN: ICC suspends trial of Congolese warlord accused of recruiting child soldiers
Voice of America: Name and shame measures used to combat child soldiers
International Press Institute: New York Times correspondent facing arrest over child soldiers interviews flees Somalia
Mizzima: ILO aids child soldier but many march on
The Sun: Taliban's army of child soldiers

June 2010

Voice of America: Somali Government denies use of child soldiers
Voice of America: UN Security Council moves toward sanctioning groups that recruit child soldiers
Voice of America: US remains hold-out in UN Child Rights Convention
Guardian: Sierra Leone child soldier's message of hope
UN envoy urges Security Council to punish recruiters of child soldiers
Haaretz Daily: 'It was my life or theirs' - testimony of a former child soldier in the Central African Republic
Human Rights Watch calls for US to step up pressure on allies using child soldiers
UNICEF: Chad and five other Central African countries pledge to end use of children in armed conflict
Deutsche Welle: Congolese sanctuary offers child soldiers hope of readjustment
Voice of America: UNICEF pressing to end recruitment of child soldeirs in Central Africa
BBC: A Sri Lankan re-education for Tamil child soldiers
The Medical News: Report on mental health outcomes of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone
The Irrawaddy: UN group to begin child soldier information campaign (in Burma)

May 2010

UNICEF and partners support reintegration of child soldiers in Chad
UN: Annual report to the Security Council of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict  lists most persistent violators for recruiting and using children
UNICEF: After alarming rise UNICEF calls for release of Somali child soldiers

April 2010

UN: Ban says UN must aid Nepalese Government to reintegrate Maoist child soldiers
Jurist: Not child's play: Revisiting the law of child soldiers
The Epoch Times: Colombia Commission hopes to find former child soldiers
The Age: Ex-child soldiers share stories to build peace
Baltimore Chronicle: Indoctrinating Israeli youths to be warriors
IRIN: Reintegration challenges for Maoist female ex-combatants in Nepal
BBC: Audio slideshow - Ex-child soldier in Sudan

March 2010

Foreign Policy: Pakistan's child soldiers
The Washington Post: In Pakistan, reform school offers child fighters chance at a new life
Black Star News: Taunting refugees - abominable abuse
Defence for Children International - Palestine Section: Trial opens for soldiers accused of using child as human shield in Gaza
ABC News: Ben Affleck launches aid group for eastern Congo
Radio Australia News: Philippines army criticises separatists for use of child soldiers
Reuters: Sri Lanka hopes cricket will heal child soldiers
ADRA: Nepal: ADRA seeks to provide emotional healing to children of recent civil war
Xinhua: Childhoods with no tomorrow: Life of kid soldiers
BBC: Burma and N Korea slam UN reports
Voice: Children of war
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Life as a child soldier
Capital Times: Why Feingold's leadership on Africa matters
Reuters: Ugandan rebels deny they have moved in to Sudan's Darfur
Spero News: Archbishop Tutu condemns child-trafficking and child-solders
UNICEF: Sudanese child soldiers
IRIN: Renewed bid to fight forced labour in Myanmar

February 2010

UN: Children to be at center of any peace framework in Afghanistan
Daily World: Native Liberian on mission to aid homeland
The National: Both sides in war blamed for Yemen's dead children
IRIN: Children hit hardest by northern conflict in Yemen
UN envoy on children and armed conflict kicks off visit to Afghanistan
The Independent: Guides give hope to child soldiers and prostitutes in Africa
UNICEF: Last group of Maoist child soldiers discharged in Nepal
Human Rights Watch: UN: Keep peacekeepers in Chad
University of Botswana: Centre hosts Regional Executive Seminar on Child Soldiers and Security Forces
SOS Children's Villages: Girl soldiers less likely to be freed
Sydney Morning Herald: Innocence lost as recruitment of children continues
Des Moines Register: Uganda: Healing former child soldiers
UNICEF: Forced recuitment of child soldiers in DRC
Colombia Reports: Up to 14,000 Colombian children recruited by armed groups
The National: UN calls for the prosecution of child soldier recruiters
Democratic Voice of Burma: ILO to begin Burma child soldier campaign
UNICEF: Hameed's story: Former child soldiers are finding new lives in Chad
European Union: Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European union on the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers 12 February
The Vancouver Sun: Khadr's treatment reflects Canada's moral drift: Dallaire
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Military must back off its recruitment of teens
The Washington Post: Former boy soldier, youngest Guantanamo detainee, heads towards military tribunal
Radio Netherlands: Witness in Lubanga trial 'lied' to ICC
UN: Conclusion of discharge of children in Nepal is crucial for the peace process
Voice of America: Maoists discharge last child soldiers
Sunday's Zaman: Surrounding children (child soldiers and the PKK in Turkey)
Goal.com: Football United: 'Put down the gun, pick up the ball' - Football gives hope to Somalia's child soldiers
Liberian Daily Observer: TRC offers golden chance for pardon
Al Jazeera: Anger at Thai refugee repatriations
IRIN: Nepal: Shanta Karki, 'I don't need rehabilitation
Radio Netherlands: Colombia's FARC using child soldiers
The Daily Observer: George Clooney could play Ben Hoffman (in Girl Soldier film)
The New York Times: Nepal waits as two armies, former foes, become one
BBC: Burma army frees boy after mother pleads through media

January 2010

American Civil Liberties Union: Canadian Supreme Court finds Guantanamo detainee's rights were violated
Jesuit Refugee Service: Reintegration of child soldiers a major challenge in Uganda
SOS Children's Villages: Trial over Congo's child soldiers resumes in the Hague
The Irrawaddy: Burmese soldiers still recruit underage youth
nrc: Some children choose to be soldiers, study finds
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Militias continue to press-gang children in DR Congo
IRIN: Nepal: Rehabilitation challenge for child soldiers
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: The fight against impunity in DRC
The Observer: Liberia's amputee footballers: from civil war to African champions
SOS Children's Villages: Three days of justice for child soldiers
The Independent: Former child soldiers leave Nepal camps
BBC: Uncertain future of Nepal's former child solders
Radio Netherlands: Congo warlord defence opens at International Criminal Court
Rotary International: Setting the pace for sustainable peace in Uganda
BBC: Nepal former child soldiers freed
Al Jazeera: Child soldiers used in Yemen war

December 2009

SOS Children's Villages: Demobilizing DR Congo's child soldiers for good
BBC: Second chance for Tamil former child soldiers
Sunday Observer: Shedding bitter memories (Sri Lanka)
UN and Nepal sign action plan for release of nearly 3,000 Maoist child soldiers
Democratic Voice of Burma: Junta chief 'used child soldiers for bodyguards'
SOS Children's Villages: Rehabilitating child soldiers in South Asia
Times of India: UN envoy to visit Nepal for child soldiers' release
CNN: Lawmakers worldwide urge Myanmar probe
UN: Sri Lanka: UN envoy on children and armed conflict ends visit
IRIN: Yemen: Child soldiers used by both sides in northern conflict
Mizzima: Junta needs to do more on child solders - Human Rights Watch
The Age: Women of faith a conflict breaker
Al Jazeera: Minors 'left' in Nepal Maoist camps
The National: 'I was a child soldier in Sudan'
The National: 250,000 children exploited by armed forces across the world

November 2009

Delmarva Now: SU professor discusses life in Uganda
UN: Despite progress, challenges remain on child soldiers in Sudan, UN official reports
Guardian: UN peace mission fuelling violence in Congo, report says
Afrik: Uganda: Former LRA child soldiers undergo rehabilitation
Reuters: Congo warlords in the dock
China View: UNICEF lauds renewed deal by SPLA to end use of child soldiers
The Washington Post: Hague prosecutor accuses Congo warlords
UPI: Issue of child soldiers raised in Yemen
American Civil Liberties Union seeks data on youth held by military overseas
CCTV: Call to end use of child soldiers on Universal Children's Day
Sudan Tribune: Darfur JEM rebuts report by UN panel of experts
BBC: FDLR Inc: Congo's multinational rebels
The Irrawaddy: Junta conscripts more child soldiers (Myanmar)
Reuters India: Release of children from Nepal Maoists camps delayed
Afrique en ligne: UN envoy visits Sudan to assess status of child soldiers
AlertNet: What will happen to Guantanamo's 'child soldier,' Omar Khadr?
Radio Australia: Dozems dead in communist, army clashes in Philippines

October 2009

Al Jazeera: Atrocities haunt DRC child soldiers
The New Vision: France aids ex-LRA child soldiers
Special Court for Sierra Leone: Appeals chamber upholds sentences for convicted Revolutionary United Front leaders
The Observer: Emmanuel Jal, the War Child
Catholic Relief Services: Child soldiers (in DR Congo) fight to regain their youth
UN: Top UN official calls for swift and orderly release of child soldiers in Nepal
Al Jazeera: Video - Colombia child soldiers
UN: Nepal: UN welcomes fresh start to discharge of former Maoist fighters
Times of India: European Union urges Nepal's warring parties to reconcile
Christian Science Monitor: Lubanga trial: Is an army of child soldiers a war crime?
USAID: DRC: Helping child soldiers reintegrate
The New York Times: Rwanda to benefit from US anti-child labour fund
UN: More must be done to protect childrten in armed conflict

September 2009

UNICEF: Member states commit to greater efforts to release and reintegrate child soldiers
MONUC: Surrender and repatriations of FDLR combatants increase as MONUC steps up DDRRR efforts
Voice of America: Charles taylor denies meeting with rebel leader on eve of Sierra Leone war
BBC: Refugee crisis behind Yemen conflict
BBC: Fear level rises as LRA rebels return
News 24: 250,000 child soldiers - UN
The Telegraph (Kolkata): Maoist kid soldiers draw blood
Deutsche Welle: ICC's trial of Congo militia leader raises questions and concerns in DRC
GMA News: UN official meets with MILF brass on child soldiers
Reuters: Are resurgent Ugandan rebels backed by Kharthoum?
Associated Press: Ugandan army rescues 100 kidnapped children
Laos News: Sexual abuse of child soldiers becoming more prevalent
Daily Monitor: From his war-torn heart, Jal now sings of peace and reconciliation
Embassy: When is a child soldier not a child soldier?
IRIN: DRC child recruitment a 'tragic consequence' of war

August 2009

The Huffington Post: Meeting a girl FARC guerrilla in Bogotá
Mail & Guardian: 'They made me their slave', says former LRA child soldier
Nepal News: NGO starts work on rehabilitation of child soldiers
Voice of America: Fighting displaces civilians in Central African Republic
Australia Network News: Nepal child soldiers stuck in camps
The Irrawaddy: The story of a child soldier
The WIP: Girl soldiers are neglected casualties of war
Times of India: From guns to pens: 100 ex-LTTE child combatants sit for exams
UN Security Council expands criteria of violations against children during conflict
American Bar Association: ABA ROLI, partner organizations strive to reintegrate former child soldiers in Burundi
UPI Asia: Burma's sons of sorrow
Reuters: UN team to visit Myanmar over child soldiers
All Things Pakistan: A Taliban legacy: Using children as weapons
The Irrawaddy: (Burma) rebel groups welcome UN's child soldiers probe

July 2009

UN official welcomes child soldiers action plan by Philippine rebel group
Business Mirror: Action plan for child-warriors signed (In Philippines)
Spero News: Pakistani Taliban take child hostages
WorldNetDaily: Ex-Khmer Rouge child fighter digs up mines to 'make his country safe'
BBC: Alarm over Somalia's child soldiers
MWC News: Pakistan 'rescues' child soldiers
Daily Mirror: Children at risk despite end of war - Child rights group
Sindh Today: No respite to Sri Lankan children despite end of war - Coalition
Reuters: Meeting Southern Sudan's former 'child soldiers'
UN mobilizes first batch of child soldiers in Darfur
IRIN: Nepal: Agencies urge rehabilitation for former child soldiers
Mizzima: Report on child soldiers released (Burma)
Asia News: Sri Lanka refugee camps: concern for the fate of Tamil child soldiers
CNN: The mission to reclaim Sudan's lost child soldiers
Associated Press: Charles Taylor says insider witness was 'crazy'
AFP: Uma Thurman enlists for 'Girl Soldier'
Daily Mirror: TMVP refutes UNICEF allegations of having child soldiers (Sri Lanka)
Daily News: New life for (Sri Lanka's) child soldiers
Voice of America: American youth rally for child soldiers in Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army
BBC: Nepal child soldiers being freed
Economist: Retraining Tiger cubs
Daily Telegraph: Rebuilding the lives of Congo's child soldiers
Reuters: Nepal to free child soldiers from Maoists camps
Times: Charles Taylor says he saw nothing wrong with displaying human skulls
ICC: Prosecution rests case in trial of Thomas Lubanga
BBC: Charles Taylor labels Hague case 'lies'
BBC: Charles Taylor starts war crimes defence
Guardian: Agony without end for Liberia's child soldiers
Los Angeles Times: Obama: Child soldiers 'death sentence' to society
Institute of War & Peace Reporting: Witness at Thomas Lubanga trial says Ntaganda killed child soldier
UNICEF welcomes release of child solders and urges further demobilizations in Central African Republic
Guardian: Burma rebels to stop using child soldiers
New York Times: Impunity no more
Institute of War and Peace Reporting: Lubanga defence warn new charges threaten trial

June 2009

Irish Independent: Child 'soldiers' drawn from broken families
Washington Post: Do not forget Burma
Reuters: Somali leader says Islamists use child soldiers
BBC: Dark tales of Tamil ex-child soldiers
BBC: Sri Lanka camp young malnourished
Oneworld: A Nepali girl's fresh start
Reuters: War child sings songs of peace
Catholic News Service: Pope offers support to UN campaign to end use of child soldiers
Irish Times: A way out for Sri Lanka's child soldiers
AllAfrica.com: Set up endowment for ex-child soldiers, FOCUS urges (Liberia)
Times of India: Child soldiers fight LTTE ghosts
The Irrawaddy: Burmese army still recruiting under-age soldiers
Vatican Radio: UN highlights the issue of child soldiers
UNICEF: Ex-child soldiers: from victims of war to protagonists of peace
UN: Rome symposium on Children and Armed Conflict
The Straits Times: God's child soldiers (Somalia)
Foreign Policy in Focus: Dancing with child soldiers (Sierra Leone)
Wall Street Journal: Sri Lanka begins painful reconciliation
UN: Chad releases 84 child soldiers to UNICEF
UN: Myanmar: step up efforts to prevent child soldiers' recruitment - Ban
Calgary Herald: Awakening to Khadr's plight
Mizzima: Activists skeptical of release of child soldiers (in Burma)
Reuters: ICC looking at child soldier issue in Darfur
Washington Post: What the UN can't ignore in Burma
New York Times: Surprising facts about child soldiers

May 2009

The Observer: 'I'm only 16. They gave me a rifle. It was heavy. They said we had to go forward. If we came back they would shoor us.' Former child soldier in Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers.
BBC: UN team meets Chad child soldiers
UN: Burundi: top UN official appeals for help in reintegrating former child soldiers
AFP: Agony, uncertainty for Sri Lanka's war displaced
Asian Tribune: Sri Lanka government working on a plan to resettle IDPs in 30 days
The Australian: Sudanese child warrior shares tale of horror
BBC: Tamil children 'being abducted'
AFP: Children abducted from S. Lanka camps: rights group
UNICEF: Burundi's last child soldiers homeward bound towards a new life
Wall Street Journal: US should lead on Congo
New York Times: Scouts train to fight terrorists
Watchlist: No more denial: call for UN to protect children in armed conflict in Myanmar (Burma)
Mizzima: Child soldiers a reality in Burma: Rights group
Voice of America: UNICEF concerned by child abductions in Southern Sudan
Independent online: Burundi child soldiers stage mutiny
UN: UN blue helmets in DR Congo free 23 child soldiers
BBC: Charles Taylor loses Hague acquittal bid

April 2009

Voice of America: New report to detail failed military operation against Hutu rebels in DR Congo
UNICEF: Chad - Despite challenges, UNICEF continues to push for release of child soldiers
Human Rights Watch: UN should punish abuse of children in war
WalesOnline: Vigil highlights boy soldiers
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Raising awareness of the plight of Uganda's child soldiers
Taiwan News: Former child soldiers discuss conflict children
Mizzima: Policy needed on child soldier issue: Rights group
The Daily Star: UN chief cites reports of factions in Lebanon using child soldiers
UN: Child soldiers to be released amid crisis in volatile eastern DR Congo - UN envoy
BBC: Burundi rebels starting to disarm
AllAfrica.com: Mozambique Government pledges to solve problems of demobilised soldiers
Prensa Latina: Child soldiers in Peru
IRIN: Chad: Instability threatens demobilisation of child soldiers
UNICEF: Burundi - sporting chance at a new life for former child soldiers
Reuters: UN-backed court jails Sierra Leone rebels for recruiting child soldiers
The Liberian Journal: Interview with President Sirleaf of Liberia
Voice of America: UN: LRA remian threat to civilians in eastern Congo
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Psychologist describes trauma of child soldiers at Thomas Lubanga trial

March 2009

Institute for War & Peace Reporting: The Ntaganda controversy (DR Congo)
The Guardian: Impunity and lawlessness - the cancer of Chad
IPS: Girl soldiers used up, then thrown away
Radio France Internationale: One man's quest to stem the tide of child soldiers in the DRC
AllAfrica.com: Uganda: Former rebel re-settles child soldiers
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Child soldiers recount first killings
UNICEF: Deputy Executivve Director calls for release of all child soldiers in DR Congo.

February 2009

Daily Telegraph: Emmanuel Jal: 'Music is my weapon of choice'
AFP: UN says free Congo's 3,500 child soldiers
UNICEF: 'Bring back the Child' - UNICEF and Sri Lanka launch media campaign on child soldiers
UNICEF: Sri Lanka: More children victims of the conflict
Emmanuel Jal: War Child: A Child Soldier's Story (New memoir)
Fox News: US Senator seeks to ratify UN Convention on Rights of the Child
Associated Press: Sierra Leone rebel leaders guilty of war crimes
AFP: Sri lanka rejects truce call as fighting escalates
Vienna Connection: Child soldiers no more
Jesuit Refugee Service: Sudan: becoming a child soldier
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Demobbed child soldiers struggle to adjust to civilian life in DRC
AFP: Sri Lanka rebels sign up child soldiers for final battle: UNICEF
Daily Monitor: Former child soldiers find solace in the beautiful game
Politics.co.uk: Save the Children: Mass child soldier release in Democratic of Congo
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Lubanga trial: Child soldier tells of battle horrors
AlterNet: Girl soldiers - the cost of survival in northern Uganda
Reuters: Crisis means more child soldiers in Colombia - UN
Time: A glimmer of hope in Africa
EU2009.cz: Declaration of the President of the European Union on Red Hand Day
War Child Canada: Omar Khadr: Why Canada should take back its troubled child
IRIN: DRC: Armed groups promise to release children
Yemen Observer: Yemen rebuts report's claim of child involvement
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Father of child soldiers testifies
Times of India: Campaign held against child soldiers
International Herald Tribune: UNICEF: 85 Congolese child soldiers freed

January 2009

Toronto Star: Khadr's legal fate is not Canada's say
IRIN: Yemen: Child soldiers getting killed in North
The Guardian Weekly: Tale of a child soldier in Congo
The Guardian: Jo Becker: The ICC trial of Thomas Lubanga is an important signal to those sending children into battle worldwide
Daily Telegraph: Child soldiers: the brothers trained to kill each other
The Guardian: Congo militia leader Thomas Lubanga 'trained child soldiers to kill'
Army Times: Army re-emphasises combat age restrictions
Human Rights Watch: DRC: ICC's first trial focuses on child soldiers
Kashmir Media Service: Child soldiers recruited in Indian states
Ottawa Citizen: Khadr was not a 'child soldier' - Harper
MONUC: Goma: MONUC reunifies 20 children (formerly associated with armed groups) with their families
Toronto Star: UN official asks Obama to stop Khadr trial
AFP: Burundi rebels vow to free child soldiers - African Union
Irish Independent: The child soldiers of a lost war (Somalia)
UN: UN official urges combatants in DR Congo to release child soldiers
AFP: Liberia's psychiatric wasteland for ex-child-soldiers
Miami Herald: Rights groups alarmed by Obama's pace on Gitmo
AFP: War crimes court to hold landmark Congo trial
Associated Press: Court to hear arguments over (Guantanamo) detainee's confession
Ottawa Citizen: Khadr charges may be dropped: Lawyers
Daily Nation: Khartoum denies claims over child soldiers
Coalition: Letter to President-elect Obama re. Omar Khadr
Human Rights Watch: Uganda: Drop treason charges against abducted child
Bangkok Post: Report seeks action on child abuse
CNN: Teen trained to be suicide bomber feels tricked

December 2008

IRIN: Chad: Ali, 'These are children who have lost their lives'
BBC: Sudan 'has 6,000 child soldiers'
UNICEF: Action plan on ending the recruitment of child soldiers signed in Sri Lanka
Human Rights Watch: DR Congo: Protect children from rape and recruitment
The Times: Lord's Resistance Army uses truce to rearm and spread fear in Uganda
IRIN: Philippines: Muslim rebels agree to end use of child soldiers
AlterNet: Kids learn that killing is fun at the army's lethal new theme park
Human Rights Watch: US limits military aid to nations using child soldiers
The Times: After the terror, a new life for the child soldiers (in Liberia)
GMANews: Bill seeks rehab, scholarship program for 'child soldiers' (Philippines)
BBC: UN 'accuses Rwanda and DR Congo of helping rebels'
Daily Monitor: Forner abducted child turns into woman of substance (Uganda)
AllAfrica.com: Law bulletin analyses legal ramificiations of child soldier recruitment
UN: Nepal: UN official welcomes vow to release former child soldiers from army camps
The Independent: Innocence lost: The child soldiers forced to murder (Uganda)
International Herald Tribune: Sri Lankan militia to release child soldiers
UN: More children drafted by armed groups in eastern DR Congo, UNICEF finds

November 2008

UN: Former child soldiers launch UN-backed network for children caught in conflict
Defence for Children International - Palestine Section: CRC anniversary attests to child rights deterioration in oPt
Reuters: Congo child soldiers forced to fight and kill
New York Times: ICC Lubanga trial to resume in January (DRC)
Radio Free Europe: Child soldiers of the Balkans
Amnesty International UK: Uganda: Former child soldiers and rape victims failed by government
Reuters: Caritas centre for child soldiers raided
JURIST: Death by child: Calling recruiters of child soldiers to account
Daily Telegraph: Schoolboy reveals horrors of child soldier kidnap by rebels (DRC)
IRIN: DRC: Recruitment of child soldiers rising
Daily Telegraph: Child soldiers recruited during Congo fighting

October 2008

IRIN: Burkina Faso: Train the soldiers, protect the children
New York Times: Many flee as Congo rebels approach eastern City
Daily Monitor: UPDF generals face US arrest over child soldiers (Uganda)
Thaindian News: Maoists may free child soldiers before Ban's visit
IRIN: Philippines: Child soldiers in spotlight as Mindanao battle rages
IRIN: Sudan: Preparing for mass demobilization
AFP: ICC backs suspension of DR Congo militia leader's trial
New Vision: UPDF has no reason to recruit children (Uganda)
AfricaNews: Uganda: 3000 children in captivity
Democratic Voice of Burma: Troops abduct 19 for military recruitment
Human Rights Watch: United States: Bush signs law on child soldiers
Democratic Voice of Burma: Boy of 13 forced to join army

September 2008

Amnesty International: DRC: Increase in rape and recruitment of child soldiers
Inquirer: 301 NPA 'child warriors' slain or captured since '99 (Philippines)
GMANews: President Arroyo to bring up child warriors issue to UN (Philippines)
Inquirer: Palace: Child warriors to be avoided unless they fire first (Philippines)
UN: UN advocate for children in armed conflict hails United States legislative steps
BBC: UK Army trainers 'bullied recruits'
International Herald Tribune: Child soldiers in Burma and the China factor
Voice of America: Changing nature of warfare makes children more vulnerable
Sudan Tribune: The traumatic cost of the war in Southern Sudan
Human Rights Watch: Letter to UN Security Council members on Child Soldiers in Chad

August 2008

Colombia Reports: Life sentence for recruiters of child soldiers
Voice of America: UN calls for release of underage former guerilla fighters in Nepal
UNICEF: Armed groups in Colombia stealing childhoods from girls and boys alike
Newstrack India: Ex-Nepalese child soldiers more likely to have mental health problems
The Windsor Star: A question of child rights, not one of politics (Omar Khadr)
UN: Children are main victims of violence in Chad, Ban says in new report
Reuters: Lawyers for Guantanamo inmate sue Canadian Prime Minister
Reuters: US flag-bearer's race started with African escape
New Vision: Rights agency asks LRA to release child prisoners (Uganda)
Sunday Mirror: Child soldiers trained by the Taliban to kill British soldiers
Sydney Morning Herald: Rocky road home for 'rebel' army (Uganda)

July 2008
Washington Independent: Dallaire presses for extradition of Canadian detainee
Ottawa Citizen: Child soldiers and demonization
Washington Post: For abducted Ugandans, an elusive reintegration
Radio Netherlands Worldwide: Doing better than expected
AFP: French director shocks UN with disturbing film on child soldiers
Good Politics Radio: Children of war: too young to serve, too young to die
Nick Taussig: Gorilla guerrilla - a novel about a child soldier
The Telegraph (Calcutta): Women's army to foil kidnap
The Telegraph (Calcutta): Prepak denies abductions
Thaindian News: Child soldiers assuming dangerous proportions in Manipur
Guardian: Canada ignores calls for Guantanamo youth to come home
UN: Security Council statement on children and armed conflict
UN: Strong link between child soldiers and small arms trade
The Hindu: Irobi orders probe into missing children cases
The Scotsman: Songs of Freedom - Emmanuel Jal interview
Reuters: Khartoum, Darfur rebels use child soldiers - UN rights
CTV: Harper's comments on Omar Khadr 'deplorable': lawyer 
IWPR: ICC credibility at stake
Voice of America: War in eastern DRC creates thousands of child soldiers
BBC: ICC orders Congo warlord release
Colombia Reports: ICC asked to investigate Colombian child soldiers

June 2008
MONUC: Bukavu: launch of "Zero children associated with armed groups" campaign (DR Congo)
Sydney Morning Herald: Helping girls best way to keep a lid on conflict
AFP: ICC prosecutors detail grim DR Congo war crimes accusations
Radio Netherlands: Radio and reconciliation in Uganda
USA Today: Rapper Jal, living to tell about it (Sudan)
AFP: UN chief urges Ugandan rebels to release women and children
UN passes resolution on women, peace and security
Human Rights Watch: UN Council should help end fresh abuses by Uganda's LRA
IRIN: Uganda: Government welcomes Kony's 'change of heart' but rules out more talks
IRIN: DRC: ICC suspension a risk for Ituri stability
The Leader-Post: Deng Awan considered a hero (Sudan)
The Independent: No justice for Congo's child soldiers as trial of militia chief fails
Inquirer: Philippines army won't flinch even when confronted by child rebels
AFP: Two boys shot dead in DR Congo fleeing rebel recruitment: UN
China View: Chadian troops celebrate morale-boosting victory against rebels
Times Online: Inside the RUF: at last the child soldiers of Sierra leone have their say 
Toronto Star: MPs want Khadr returned home 
New Statesman: Burma's forced labour  
IRIN: Burundi FLN rebels 'still recruiting children' 
Human Rights Watch: US: Improve treatment of children in armed conflict 
Amnesty International: Omar Khadr is 'salvageable', military commissions are not 
Guardian: Darfur's child refugees being sold to militias 
Time: Young, armed and dangerous (photo gallery)
The Province: Turning child soldiers into youth leaders.

May 2008
UN: Committee on Rights of Child considers report of Philippines under Optional Protocol on children in armed conflict  
UPI: UN official to assess child recruitment in Chad and the Central African Republic 
IRIN: Nepal: Reintegration of child soldiers 'taking too long' 
IRIN: Pakistan: Child soldiers in Swat Valley 
Reuters India: Maoists step up recuitment of child soldiers 
Reuters: Powerful film shows brutal world of child soldiers 
Human Rights Watch: Uganda: LRA regional atrocities demand action 
American Civil Liberties Union: US military recuitment practices violate international standards 
The Johannesburg Times: Child soldiers riot in Burundi 
The Jamaica Observer: Jamaica's child soldiers 
Independent: Canadian becomes first child soldier since Nuremberg to stand trial for war crimes  
UNICEF wecomes the release of 232 child soldiers in Burundi 
Reuters: US rejects Canadian's child soldier defence 
Times Online: Help for young women forced to be child soldiers in Sierra Leone

April 2008
International Herald Tribune: International Criminal Court unseals warrant for Congo militia leader wanted for using child soldiers  
Globe and Mail: Rebel army resumes campaign of abducting child soldiers in Africa 
Amnesty International: Central Africa: Governments and UN must join forces to secure release of kidnapped women and children  
The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka): Prabha, Karuna may escape through loopholes 
HRW: In support of the Child Soldiers Accountability Act 2007: Hearing in the US House Judiciary Subcommittee 
BBC: Uganda rebels due to sign peace agreement 
Reuters: Nepal's child soldiers trade rifles for tools 
UNICEF: Enabled and empowered: a 'child mother' returns home in northern Uganda

March 2008
IPS: Burma: back to child recruitment
The East African: Child soldiers in the making? (Kenya)
Guardian: Jailed Tamil warlord has deadly influence on election (Sri Lanka)

February 2008
BBC: Uganda rejects key peace demand 
IPS: As civil wars end, child soldiers decline - interview with Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict 
Church World Service: Allies demand an end to the use of child soldiers 
The Star: Harper urged to intervene for Khadr (Canada)
UN: Sierra Leone: UN-backed court upholds jail sentences for rebel leaders 
Human Rights Watch: UN should sanction LTTE and Karuna Group for using child soldiers (Press release.)
International Crisis Group: Sri lanka's return to war: limiting the damage 
IRIN: Africa: Former child soldiers at risk of HIV 
IRIN: Chad: Captured rebels include children 
UN: Situation of children affected by armed conflict 'grave and entirely unacceptable' 
EU: Press release from European Commissioners to mark Red Hand Day 
IRIN: Former child soldiers still at risk in Cote d'Ivoire 
UNICEF: Number of armed groups or forces using child soldiers increases from 40 to 57 
Reuters: Is the world failing a generation of child soldiers? 
Press release from DRC Child Soldiers Coalition to mark Red Hand Day
Plan: Child soldiers 'a ticking time bomb' 
Le Château: the lives of prisoners in Rwanda - new book by Carina  Tertsakian
London Free Press: war coverage leaves reporter with own trauma 
CBS: US case against Guantanamo youth shaken 
Reuters: ICC vows 'no impunity' for African war criminals 
BBC: Congolese warlord flown to the Hague 
UNICEF: Statement concerning the case of Omar Khadr
The Herald: A history of violence (Child soldiers in Uganda.)

January 2008
Bangkok Post: Thailand: Training of 'child soldiers' condemned
UN: Some 250,000 children worldwide recruited to fight in wars - UN official
UN: Child recruitment continues in over one dozen countries, reports UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
UN: Secretary-General's report on Children and armed conflict - December 2007
Afriquenligne: African Union explores role of female child soldiers in African conflicts
Canada.com: Pentagon vetoes Guantanamo visit by UN official
BBC: Rebels sign Dr Congo peace deal
Informed choice? Armed forces recruitment in the United Kingdom by David Gee
BBC: Taylor faces the past in court (Liberia/Sierra Leone)
BBC: Taylor's trial hears of massacre (Liberia/Sierra Leone)
Toronto Star: Campaign to free Khadr escalates
The Scotsman: Blood diamonds, mutilated miners and an ex-president accused over 'slavery' (Liberia/Sierra Leone)
Save the Children: Rocketing levels of children abducted by DRC fighting groups
Voice of America: Children fight on frontline of DRC war

December 2007
IRIN: Nepal: Challenges of reintegrating former child soldiers
People's Daily Online: China ratifies UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
UN: Sri Lanka rebels, breakaway faction still recruiting child soldiers - Ban-Ki moon
The Irrawaddy News: Child recruits are the price of retirement in Burma's army
AFP: UN slams Congolese rebel child soldier recruitment
Voice of America: Congo's government launches offensive against rebels
IPS: US Congress takes action on cluster bombs, child soldiers
IRIN: Chad: Child soldiers forcibly mobilised not demobilised
MONUC: Security Council calls on DR Congo rebels to disarm, end child recruitment
Guardian Unlimited: Tamil warlord entered UK on forged passport (Sri Lanka)
IRIN: Afghanistan: Child soldiers operating on several fronts
Press release from UN SRSG's office on the situation in North Kivu, DRC
IPS: Philippines: UN study gives voice to children in the ranks
UN: DR Congo: UN mission says recruitment of child soldiers is surging
CBC: Why the Pentagon treats Omar Khadr differently
UN: Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict examines reports on Burundi and Myanmar. (Reports can be found under countries on the Regions page.)
ICRC: Protecting children in armed conflict
The Independent: Return of the child soldiers (Uganda)
The Times: Back to life (former child soldiers in the DR Congo)
The Manila Times: Children playing soldiers (The Philippines)
Afriquenligne: African Union plans policy workshop on female ex-child soldiers
The New York Sun: DR Congo's crown of thorns
Reuters: Help Sierra Leone's child soldiers more, UN judge says

November 2007
UN: Secretary-General reports 'grave violations' of children's rights in Myanmar
Inner City Press: First Congo trial of ICC will be test case; while child conscriptor Karim remains free
Reuters: Former child soldier becomes UNICEF ambassador
Globe and Mail: Video footage proves Khadr a child soldier, lawyers say
CNN: DR Congo militia releases 232 child soldiers
AllAfrica.com: Uganda: Gulu without guns
Globe and Mail: The Lost Boys of Sudan find their way home
Reuters: DRC-Rwanda: Former child soldiers prepare to go home
Reuters: ILO asks Myanmar (Burma) to declare forced labour banned
Times of India: It's all guns, no roses for these children of combat (India)
Voice of America: Congo's child soldiers face tough road to recovery
Reuters Alertnet: War Child Holland and the Colombia Coaltion to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers raise the alarm about the poor situation of children in Colombia
Guardian Unlimited: Tamil paramilitary held over immigration offences (Sri Lanka)
UN: Former female child soldiers from Uganda call for action to address the scourge
Foreign Policy: Are child soldiers lost forever?

October 2007
IPS: Around the World: Children make 'Good Soldiers'
MONUC denounces the presence of children in FARDC's ranks (DRC)
Human Rights Education Institute of Burma: Statement on Human Rights Watch' Burma Report
Human Rights Watch: Burma: Children bought and sold by army recruiters
IRIN: Africa-Asia:Youth at war: dealing with a generation of young soldiers
CBS News: Ranks of child soldiers rise in Congo
AllAfrica.com: Liberia: The children are smiling but there's so much more to do - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
ICC: Second arrest in the DRC: Germain Katanga transferred into the custody of the ICC
UNICEF: Maisha's story: Former child soldier reclaims his life in DR Congo
BBC: Child soldiers seek haven in Britain
Belfast Telegraph: Ireland's defence forces urged to ban recruitment of under-18s
UN: Broadcasting peace: radio a tool for recovery (Uganda)
Special Court for Sierra Leone: Former CDF militia leaders sentenced
International Herald Tribune: Nations renew commitment to stop the use of child soldiers
UNICEF: Helping former child soldiers plant seeds for the future in DR Congo
UNICEF: More nations commit to 'Paris Principles' on ending the trauma of child soldiers

September 2007
Kent News: MEP campaigns against use of child soldiers
Amnesty International: DRC: Escalating violence in North-Kivu deepens risk of mass ethnic killings
International Herald Tribune: ICC considers holding trial hearings in Congo

August 2007
AHN: Child detainees on the rise in Iraq
Forbes: Another side of child-soldiering: Girls (Uganda)
CBC: Hoax child soldier camp advertisements outrage Torontians
Inquirer: Military: No let up in war versus terror (The Philippines)
Guardian Unlimited: Charles Taylor war crimes trial postponed until January (Liberia)
The Star: Ottawa played down Khadr concerns (Canada)
The Irish Times: Grown-up child soldiers can only hope for better life (Sierra Leone)
Maisonneuve: Canada's forgotten child soldier
South Bend Tribune: Play testifies to ordeal of Ugandan child soldiers
St Petersburg Times: Killing our fathers, raising our sons (Liberia)
International Herald Tribune: Child soldiers in hiding in Somalia after recent violence
Special Court for Sierra Leone: Former leader of Sierra Leone's Civil Defence Forces militia convicted of recruiting combatants under the age of 15.
OneWorld Africa: Use of child soldiers in war-torn Africa
BBC: Child soldiers 'need mental help' says German study

July 2007
Reuters: Fewer child soldiers, many still brutally vulnerable
Reuters: Hot spots of child soldier recruitment
Reuters: Chad child soldier, aged 12, tells of horror
Catholic Information Service for Africa: Catholic parish rehabilitates former child soldiers in DR Congo
Washington Post: The price of peace in Uganda
IWPR: ICC court look set to issue second DRC indictment
IWPR: New Lubanga judge keen on DRC trial
UN Security Council expresses deep concern at deteriorating security situation in eastern DRC
People's Daily: Cote d'Ivoire receives UNICEF donation for demobilization of child soldiers
The Scotsman: Chad's boy soldiers slowly grasp lost childhood
USA Today: For former Ugandan child soldiers, long bike ride's a holiday
Joy Online: Using child soldiers is a 'human rights sin' - Senator Dallaire
UN body urges end to use of child soldiers in Uganda and Somalia
Special Court for Sierra Leone: Former AFRC leaders receive long prison sentences
American Jewish World Council: Rehabilitating child soldiers in DR Congo
BBC: Chad child soldiers scrutinised
UNICEF: 'Empowering hands' for former child soldiers in Uganda
Human Rights Watch: Chad: Government keeps children in army ranks
Sunday Herald: In the shadow of the junta (Myanmar)
Times Colonist: Three from University of Victoria staff join mission to end use of child soldiers in Africa
International Rescue Committee: Northern Uganda: from horror to hope
UN: Secretary-General urges greater protection for children in Chad and DR Congo
Guardian Unlimited: Prosecutor sees progress in Taylor trial (Liberia)
The Scotsman: Children of the revolution (Liberia)
ICRC denounces major and repeated violations of international humanitarian law in Myanmar
The Daily Star: Lebanon conference raises awareness on use of minors in armed conflict
UNICEF: Vocational training helps reintegrate Liberia's former child solders
The Irrawaddy: Burma's Army to stop recruiting child soldiers
UN: International Criminal Court already changing behaviour, says Prosecutor
BBC: Liberia's Taylor appears in court
UN: Myanmar: Government and UN begin dialogue on child soldiers
UNHCR: Former child soldier speaks out for those without a voice (Sierra Leone)

June 2007
Daily Monitor: 'LRA won't free children in captivity' (Uganda)
BBC: Uganda rebels in new peace move
The Independent: Uganda's boy soldier turned rebel chief is a victim, not a criminal, says his family
The Scotsman: Boy, 6, 'tricked to wear suicide bomb' by Taleban (Afghanistan)
Herald Tribune: UN envoy in Myanmar to set up child soldiering monitoring system
The Age: Stealing childhood so conflicts can be fought
Ball State Daily News: BSU professor to counsel ex-child soldiers
AllAfrica.com: Uganda: Arua pupils win poetry competition awards
IWPR: New study gives huge figures for LRA abductions in Uganda
New Vision: West Nile asks for resettlement plans (Uganda)
Asian Tribune: The Flourishing Business (child soldiers in Myanmar)
IWPR: ICC examines child soldier convictions
Human Rights Watch: Sierra Leone: Landmark convictions for use of child soldiers
IRIN: Sri Lanka: UNICEF cautiously welcomes Tigers' release of child soldiers AllAfrica.com: Rwanda: Dilemma of the African child persists
Daily Times: No more child soldiers by year end, pledge LTTE (Sri Lanka)
UNICEF: Central African Republic signs child soldiers reintegration agreement
Newswise: Impact of war crimes against children in Uganda
Seattlepi: Girl soldiers are casualties of war (DRC)
BBC: Recruiting Taleban 'child soldiers' (Afghanistan)
Tyee Books: Can kids be war criminals?
UNICEF welcomes agreement to hand over children by Sudan Liberation Movement in Darfur
UNICEF: Sierra Leone approves National Child Rights Bill
Bua News: International humanitarian law tops SADC agenda
New York Times: A legal debate in Guantanamo on boy fighters
The Times: Lost boys who found their voices
Reuters: War was classroom for Sierra Leone child soldiers

May 2007
Human Rights Watch: Charles Taylor: Liberian ex-President goes on trial
Daily Monitor: Inside the Lord's Resistance Army camp in the Congo (Uganda)
Reuters: Child soldiers still fight in Congo's new army
UNICEF: Child soldiers demobilized in the Central African Republic
African News Dimension: Giving up arms, rebuilding lives
Reuters: Liberia's child soldiers take up arms again - for the movies
Newsweek: Uganda: Child soldiers fight for fresh start
Voice of America: Chad schools try to stop child soldier recruitment
ISN Security Watch: Child soldiers: More talk, little action
Human Rights Watch: Sri Lanka: UN Security Council directs Tamil Tigers, Karuna to end use of child soldiers
BBC: Chad demobilises child soldiers
Special Court for Sierra Leone: Trial of Charles Taylor set for June 4 opening
Human Rights Watch: Nepal: Maoists should release child soldiers now
Guardian Unlimited: UK: Pride and tears over rising toll of teenagers sent to war
Reuters Alertnet: Child soldiers: "A four foot tall killing machine"
CBC: Interview with Ishmael Beah, ex-child soldier in Sierra Leone
The Observer: Why we have fallen for Africa's lost boys
IRIN: Nepal: NGOs concerned at lack of action to release child soldiers
UNICEF: James Nesbitt meets former child soldiers in southern Sudan (Interview with James Nesbitt on Today FM, Ireland, on his return from Sudan - starts 12 minutes in.)
New York Times: The perfect weapon for the meanest wars

April 2007
Human Rights Watch: US: Cut military aid to governments using child soldiers
Stars and Stripes: US marines under 18 no longer will deploy to combat zones
The Independent: Life after death for Africa's child soldiers
ABC: UNICEF condemns Taliban's use of child soldiers (Afghanistan)
Voice of America: Former child soldier testifies before US Congress
Human Rights First: Child soldiers - treat them as victims, not just victimizers
World Vision: US legislation aims to stop the use of child soldiers
The New Vision: Ugandan Peoples' Defence Force denies drafting child soldiers
The Washington Post: Former child soldiers seek redemption
Human Rights Watch: DR Congo: Army should stop use of child soldiers
BBC: Uganda rebels sign new ceasefire
The Daily Star: NGO raises awareness on child soldiers in Lebanon
Ishmael Beah: A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Sierra Leone)
Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Uganda: Waiting for the children to come home

March 2007
Voice of America: Former Sierra Leonean child soldier adjusts to life in the US
AllAfrica.com: Burundi: More needs to be done to protect children from child soldiering and human trafficking
CBC News: Therapists without borders
National Post (Canada): Disarming the children

February 2007
IWPR: ICC prosecutors appeal Lubanga ruling (DRC)
AsiaNews: Nepal: Maoists not demobilising thousands of child soldiers, says United nations
UN: DR Congo: child soldiers being recruited into integrated brigades, UN mission warns
UN: Former child soldier launches memoirs in UN effort to curb the use of children in war
IRIN: DRC: Child soldiers recuitment continues
CNN: Stolen kids turned into terrifying killers
The New Vision: Activists urge LRA to release children (Uganda)
ICRC: Red Hand Day: ICRC calls for an end to recruitment of child soldiers
Sudan Tribune: Child soldiers conference castigates Sudan over Darfur
The New Vision: Uganda endorses children protection
UNICEF: Paris conference ends with historic pledge to free children from war
UK Coalition: Press release on UK government's recruitment of under 18s
New Statesman: Britain's child army
UNICEF: Global conference to end the recruitment of child soldiers opens
Swissinfo: Nations adopt new rules on child soldiers
BBC: Child soldiers are a time bomb
Save the Children Alliance: Child soldiers being actively recruited as frontline fodder in at least 13 countries
BBC: Ugandan rebels threaten offensive
Inner City Press: Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army in sights of UN Security Council President, for action on war crimes
Human Rights Watch: Nepal: Maoists should release child soldiers

January 2007
International Herald Tribune: Child soldiers in hiding in Somalia after recent fighting
The Guardian: Alleged Congolese warlord to stand trial
The Independent: Historic trial puts warlord in dock over child soldiers
The Economist: International Criminal Court proves more robust than expected
Human Rights Watch press release and report - Sri Lanka: State collusion in abductions and child recruitment by the Karuna group.
PressZoom: Nepali children caught in the crossfire
The Independent: Escaping the battle: From child soldier to poster boy
Save the Children UK: Millions of children at risk in Uganda
Awareness Times: Call for 'Blood Diamond' proceeds to benefit ex-child soldiers in Sierra Leone
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Pittsburgh professor briefs UN on child soldiers
Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection by Michael Wessells. New book reveals lives of child soldiers around the world.
The Guardian: African search for peace throws court into crisis
IRIN: Somalia: Protect children from conscription, say aid agencies
The Independent: Don't turn your back on my country: Liberia's president
DailyIndia.com: International will can eliminate child soldiers: UN expert
CBC News: Therapists without borders
Voice of America: UNICEF concerned about child soldier recruitment in Chad refugee camps

December 2006
ABC News: Child soldiers recall learning lessons of war instead of the classroom
OneWorld USA: Behind the 'Blood Diamond': Learn more and get involved
Gulf Times: Girls suffer most as conscript 'soldiers'
Legalbrief Africa: Hope for child soldiers and their shattered lives
UNICEF: 'Blood Diamond' film highlights plight of child soldiers

November 2006
Human Rights Watch: Sri Lanka: stop child abductions by Karuna group
Child Soldiers Coalition: Next steps for UN Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict
UN: Child soldiers continue to be used around the world - new report
Council for Foreign Relations: In Uganda, Peace versus Justice
UN: Special Advisor on Children and Armed Conflict reports on Sri Lanka mission
Newsweek: The International Criminal Court is considering its first case involving the use of children as soldiers
IRIN: Iraq insurgents using children to fight US-led forces
MONUC: Congolese children swell militia ranks
MDRP: Child soldiers in the DRC: an interview with Sarah Michael, MDRP Social Development Specialist
Institute of War and Peace Reporting: Plight of girl soldiers overlooked in DRC
Reporter without Borders: Chadian journalist detained for reporting on child soldiers

October 2006
Amnesty International: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Child soldiers abandoned
UN: Continuing presence of Colombian child soldiers sparks appeal by UN agency
Peace and Conflict Monitor: "I wanted to take revenge" - The motivations and challenges of girl soldiers
Panos: Mozambique's healing lessons for Ugandan peacemakers
The Redress Trust: Child Soldiers before the International Criminal Court

September 2006
OHCHR: Press release and summary of findings on CPN-Maoist abuses in Nepal (Press release and summary.)
The EastAfrican: Sudan's child soldiers
Asian Tribune: Los Angeles Demonstrators Demand Arrest of LTTE Leaders for Conscription of Children (Sri Lanka)
International Herald Tribune: New hope for an end to Uganda's monstrous war
Embassy News, Canada: Colombian ex-child soldiers seek a new life
UN: Condena a las FARC-EP y al ELN por crímenes de guerra en Arauca
Reuters: UN panel targets Congo militia over child soldiers

August 2006
Mizzima News: Need for open dialogue to abolish child soldier use in Burma: SEACSUCS
Voice of America: Bombing highlights dangers for Sri Lanka's children
Reuters: DRC rebel charged with war crimes by ICC
BBC: Uganda begins ceasefire with LRA
IRIN: Nepal: Schoolchildren still being put at risk say activists
BBC: Government and rebel forces in Sudan are guilty of abusing children, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said.
Refugees International: DRC demobilization programs require special focus on girls.
The Herald: Laughter in the face of disaster - children in Sri Lanka.
IRIN: Nepal: Interview with OHCHR on demobilization of child soldiers.
Time: Hope for Uganda's child soldiers?
Guardian: Review of Ahmadou Kourouma's novel about a child soldier in West Africa.
IRIN: Rights activists demand rehabilitation of child soldiers in Nepal.
The Independent: We are ready for war, rebels warn Kabila.

July 2006
Sunday Times: Pop star talks of past as child soldier
Washington Times: Ugandan child soldiers wake up from a nightmare
Guardian: 'Divine' twin surrenders to Burmese junta
The Irrawaddy: Burmese government tells UN Security Council it no longer conscripts children
BBC: Bleak future for Congo's child soldiers
UN member states renew commitment to protecting children in armed conflict. Press release. Statement to Security Council.
Colombia Journal: The role of internally displaced people as child soldiers in Colombia
Guardian: Girl soldiers are on the increase in Liberia and beyond
Globe and Mail: From the bush, a harsh homecoming in northern Uganda
UN needs funds to prevent former child soldiers returning to armed groups in Afghanistan
BBC: Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage donate's £1.1m to help former child soldiers
BBC: Ugandan president offers amnesty for LRA leader

June 2006
UN Special Representative for Children Affected by Armed Conflict announces visit to Sri Lanka
UN: Uganda has agreed to cleanse its army of child soldiers, UN envoy says
GOAL: Plight of Ugandan child soldiers being fuelled by abuse of arms
UNICEF Sri Lanka condemns child abduction and recruitment by the Karuna Group

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