Topia!: Society: Issues: Children, Youth and Family: Child Soldiers (25) See Also: Society: Issues: Warfare and Conflict 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. Impact of Armed Conflict on Children:Child Soldiers - Extract from the report of Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary-Geneal of the UN 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. Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers - Nonprofit activist group working to stop the recruitment of children in war. Human Rights Watch: Stop the Use of Child Soldiers - Information and accounts of the use of child soldiers. Child rights information network: Armed Conflict - An information base for current news and documents on children in armed conflict including child soldiers. 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. Child and Young Adult Soldiers - Provides facts and information on child soldiers including international policy guidelines, methods and practices and relevant worldwide organisations. 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. 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. 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. 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. Child Soldiers Resources - Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide. The Centre for Defense Information's Children and Armed Conflict Project - Provides information (written and visual) on the global use of child soldiers. Operation: Stop Inciting Children to Kill - Focuses particularly on the use of children in the Middle East conflict.The site consists of reports, factsheets, artciles and a petition against the use child combatants. Radio Netherlands: Child Soldiers of Liberia - Provides information about the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war (1989-1997). Government of Canada: Child Soldiers - Provides details of the recruitment and use of children in adult wars in a question and answer format. 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. Y&M Online: Child Soldiers - American Friends Service Committee's website providing information, news, and analysis on child soldiers around the world. 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. Save the Children: Child Soldier Campaign - Provides brief analysis and information on the participation of children in modern day conflicts. 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. Global March Against Child Labour: Child Soldiers - Recommends relevant publications, provides articles and information about child soldiers. Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: Global Report 2001 - The most recent and comprehensive study (released June 12th 2001)to date on the use of child soldiers globally. Rädda Barnen: Child War Database - Save the Children Sweden's documentation centre on child soldiers. Additional categories: wine racks digital camcorder review gamecocks Rochas animal

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