Twenty-two years ago, the United Nations treaty banning the use of child soldiers entered into force. While the treaty represents an important milestone, it has not eliminated the tragedy of child ...

International pressure was critical to ending the use of child soldiers in Nepal. The United Nations can’t let politics undermine its mission to do so elsewhere.

UN commitment to protect children from being recruited as soldiers. However, armed groups have increased the recruitment and ...

This lesson plan explores how some armies and militias forcibly recruit young people into armed conflict. consider the thoughts and feelings of a child soldier explore a range of perspectives and how ...

Thousands of children unwillingly participated in the violent conflict as soldiers, spies and laborers. Many took part in attacks on their own neighbors and relatives, many faced sexual violence ...

The war finally ended in 2002, but what remained was an open, urgent question: What would happen with these children? No one knew what the lives of former child soldiers might look like. Perhaps they ...

Life in Lulu scriptwriter Kululu draws on his own experience as a child soldier and his love of storytelling to help children in South Sudan Kululu Elgebana was born in 1984 in Sudan, during ...

In the city of Goma, Congolese journalist Ruth Omar looks at how former child soldiers are being rehabilitated using capoeira, the Brazilian martial art. Show more In the city of Goma, Congolese ...

A 2021 United Nations (UN) report highlighted West and Central Africa as the regions with the highest verified child soldier recruitment from 2016-20. Minors typically join armed groups through ...

On Jan. 28 a military judge sentenced a soldier to 36 months in prison for attempting to receive child pornography and ...

Police arrested Diego N, better known by his alias 'The Fat Rat' after he was accused of being the Cartel kingpin behind a string of violent crime in southern Mexico ...