Themed Reports


The Coalition publishes regular reports for lobbying and information. It also highlights reports by other human rights organizations working on child soldiers.

  • Child Soldiers Coalition reports and documents: all reports (except Global Reports) produced by the Coalition collected in one place
  • Child Soldiers Conferences: documents on major regional conferences organized by the Coalition and its partners
  • Committee on the Rights of the Child briefings and report: briefings sent to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (Geneva) before their annual sessions and an analysis of country submissions
  • Cross-border and regional reports: reports on cross-border recruitment and regional conflicts
  • Informes en Español (Reports in Spanish)
  • Rapports en Français (Reports in French)
  • Reports from Coalition partners
  • UN briefings: reports sent to the United Nations Security Council (New York), on the involvement of children in armed conflict.
  • All Child Soldiers Coalition reports and documents
  • Mai Mai child recruitment and use in the DRC - February 2010
  • Letter sent to countries that have ratified neither the child soldiers nor sale of children Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of The Child - May 2010
  • Letter sent to countries that have not ratified the child soldiers Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child - May 2010
  • Letter sent to countries that have not ratified the sale of children Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child - May 2010
  • Countries list for letters sent in May 2010
  • Coalition report to CRC on OPAC implementation in Sri Lanka - April 2010
  • Briefing to the UN Security Council working group on Sri Lanka - February 2010
  • Release and reintegration of child soldiers - one part of a bigger puzzle - Child Soldiers Coalition - October 2009
  • Sri Lanka briefing document presented to UN Security Council - July 2009
  • DDR Bibliography June 2009
  • Joint briefing on Myanmar to UN Security Council working group on children and armed conflict - June 2009
  • Coalition letter to UN Security Council members in advance of the debate on children and armed conflict - 20 April 2009
  • Letter to President-elect Obama re. Omar Khadr - January 2009
  • Child Recruitment and Use in Southern Thailand - Briefing paper - December 2008
  • Child Recruitment and Use in Southern Thailand - Briefing paper - Thai translation - December 2008
  • Returning Home - Children's perspectives on reintegration - A case study of children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Teso, eastern Uganda - February 2008
  • Next steps for the Security Council - Child Soldiers Coalition and Watchlist on children and armed conflict - January 2008
  • Time to Implement: National and international legal instruments related to the recruitment and use of children in armed forces and groups - Uganda Child Soldiers Coalition - December 2007
  • Child Soldiers: How to Engage in Dialogue with Non-State Armed Groups by Lucia Withers, Chapter for Swiss Human Rights Book Vol 2: Realizing the Rights of the Child - November 2007
  • The vulnerability of children to involvement in armed conflict in Lebanon - Child Soldiers Coalition - October 2007
  • Report of international forum on armed groups and the involvement of children in armed conflict - Child Soldiers Coalition - August 2007
  • Priorities for child soldiers in DRC - briefing to UN - Child Soldiers Coalition - July 2007
  • Child recruitment in South Asian conflicts - Bangladesh briefing - Child Soldiers Coalition - April 2007
  • Colombia borders report - Child Soldiers Coalition - February 2007
  • Bibliography on approaching armed groups - Child Soldiers Coalition - December 2006
  • Child recruitment in South Asian conflicts - Charu Lata Hogg & Child Soldiers Coalition - November 2006
  • Survey of DDR in West Africa - Child Soldiers Coalition - November 2006
  • Analysis of submissions to the Committee on the Rights of the Child - Child Soldiers Coalition - November 2006
  • Call for action working with child soldiers in West Africa - Child Soldiers Coalition & Save the Chidren Sweden - September 2006
  • Armed Groups Forum background document - Child Soldiers Coalition - June 2006
  • UN Study on Violence against Children - Military schools and peacetime government armies - March 2004
  • Child soldier use 2003 - briefing to the UN Security Council
  • Child soldiers 1379 report to the UN Security Council - November 2002
  • Child Soldier Conferences
  • Committee on the Rights of the Child briefings and report
  • Cross-border and regional reports
  • Informes en Español
  • Rapports en Français
  • Reports from Coalition partners
  • UN briefings