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Impact of Armed Conflict on Children: Child Soldiers
Extract from the report of Graca Machel, expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.
www.un.org
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.
www.icrc.org
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Nonprofit activist group working to stop the recruitment of children in war.
www.child-soldiers.org
Human Rights Watch: Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Information and accounts of the use of child soldiers.
www.hrw.org
Child rights information network: Armed Conflict
An information base for current news and documents on children in armed conflict including child soldiers.
www.crin.org
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.
www.unicef.org
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.
www2.essex.ac.uk
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.
www.hrw.org
Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide.
www.vachss.com
Radio Netherlands: Child Soldiers of Liberia
Provides information about the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war (1989-1997).
www.rnw.nl
Publication on skills development and training for war-affected youth after civil war in Mozambique.
www.ilo.org
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.
www2.essex.ac.uk
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.
www.iss.co.za
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.
www.hrw.org
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.
www.sos-childrensvillages.org