Child Soldiers

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• Sierra Leone: Police plan to use ex-child combatants to battle crime

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 446
  By Lansana Fofana - IPS Republished permission Inter Press Service (IPS ) copyright Inter Press Service (IPS)http://www.ipsnewsasia.net/ and http://www.ipsnews.net/ Credit:Ansu Konneh/IRINFREETOWN, Dec 18 (IPS) - A new police force plan to recruit youths in each community, to help fight the country-wide spate of ...
  2 days ago

• Nepal Maoists finally agree to free child soldiers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  By Sudeshna SarkarKathmandu, Dec 16 (IANS) Witnessed by top UN officials and envoys from foreign governments, Nepal’s Maoist chief and former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Wednesday finally gave his consent to a new accord with the coalition government to release nearly 3,000 child soldiers from his party’s ...
  5 days ago

• Child soldiers: UN envoy to try to obtain release of Nepals child soldiers

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 446
  A top United Nations human rights official arrives in Nepal today to help accelerate the release of nearly 3,000 child soldiers who served in the Maoist army during the country’s decade-long civil war and remain in temporary camps three years after a peace deal ended the conflict.The Secretary-General’s Special ...
  6 days ago

• Junta chief ‘used child soldiers for bodyguards’

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
  Dec 14, 2009 (DVB)–Burma’s junta strongman Than Shwe has surrounded himself with a special bodyguard unit that took root 15 years ago and reportedly included child soldiers, sources close to the army have said. The unit was designed independently by Than Shwe as means to create a “private family army” that ...
  1 week ago

• Chenjerai Hove: Exiles Won’t Return Until Zimbabwe is Released from Grip of Fear

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 480
  Exiled writer Chenjerai Hove responds to Morgan Tsvangirai’s recent call for Zimbabweans abroad to return home with a call of his own: dismantle the climate of fear that prevails in Zimbabwe first: Zimbabweans are generally a peace-loving people to the point of sometimes being desolately apathetic. One unarmed ...
  1 week ago

• Free Sri Lanka Child Soldiers: UN Envoy

  
  A Pakistan News — Authority: 578
  Colombo: Free Sri Lanka Child Soldiers: UN Envoy, A top United Nations envoy asked Sri Lanka today to release detained Tamil Tiger child soldiers and asked the authorities to re-unite them with their families. Retired Major General Patrick Cammaert, the UN special envoy on children and armed conflict, said children ...
  1 week ago

• Alarmed UN sends envoy to free Nepal’s child soldiers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Kathmandu, Dec 12 (IANS) With Nepal’s new coalition government failing to meet its November deadline to free almost 3,000 child soldiers languishing in Maoist barracks since the signing of a peace agreement three years ago, an alarmed UN Saturday said it was sending a special envoy to give a push to the stalled ...
  1 week ago

• Child soldiers: 9 year old Yemeni boy detonator in one hand, packages strapped to his legs

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 446
  “No to the exploitation of children for destructive operations and terrorism,” reads the poster of AkramThe huge poster hanging in the press conference shows a Yemeni boy dressed in a traditional brown robe, holding a detonator in one hand, while with the other he lifts his gown to reveal packages strapped to his ...
  1 week ago

• I love gettting mail from my politicians...

  
  Visionary Life — Authority: 92
  Dear Miss Swaty: Thank you for contacting me about the situation in Uganda and the African Great Lakes Region. It was good to hear from you. I thought you would like to know that I am now a cosponsor of S. 1067, the Lords Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009, which was introduced ...
  1 week ago

• There Are 250,000 Child Soldiers Worldwide

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  250,000 Children Exploited By Armed Forces Across The World -- The National NEW YORK // Southern Sudan’s rebel groups are not the only forces in Africa’s largest nation to send children into battle, the UN’s expert on underage soldiers said, with the government and Darfur militias also known to use child ...
  2 weeks ago

• Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (67): Child Soldiers

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 506
  A funny look at a deeply tragic phenomenon: More on the problem of child soldiers here . Here is a map pinpointing the places in the world where children are used as soldiers. And here and here are adverts that are part of a campaign against child soldiers. Something more general on children’s rights ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nicolas Cage receives UN’s Global Citizen of the Year award

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  London, December 06 (ANI): Nicolas Cage has received Global Citizen of the Year award from the United Nations for his humanitarian efforts.The ‘Con Air’ actor has also been appointed as a UN goodwill ambassador on drugs and crime.“My real life role as goodwill ambassador will certainly be even more challenging ...
  2 weeks ago

• Child soldiers: Nepals former Maoist child soldiers trapped in camps

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 446
  Theyve been through the horrors of warfare while still in their teens - now Nepals former Maoist child soldiers are facing further distress in their 20s.Thousands remain trapped in UN-monitored camps, having been disqualified from serving in a newly-unified security force.The Maoists say they wont leave without ...
  2 weeks ago

• KASSIM THE DREAM - From Child Soldier To Boxing Superstar

  
  / HAMMER TO NAIL — Authority: 123
  ( Kassim the Dream is now available for viewing through IFC’s Sundance Selects, a video on-demand transactional platform carried by Bright House, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox, and Time Warner cable systems. Visit the film’s official website to learn more. ) Kief Davidson’s Kassim the Dream delivers ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bagram Interviews, ACLU Letter on Child Prisoners, Obama Seals Up Secrets

  
  Invictus — Authority: 463
  Yesterday [11/28], my [Daily Kos] diary on the Washington Post and New York Times articles regarding the existence of torture at a black-site, Special Operations-run prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, sparked a lot of comments. These spanned the spectrum from incredulity at the torture reports to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unsettling profile of war crimes ambassador

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 479
  War crimes envoy has personal touch read the headline for Colum Lynchs recent Washington Post profile of Stephen J. Rapp , who, as weve posted , became U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues in September. Figured the story would talk about how Rapps experiences as the top prosecutor at the Special Court ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sri Lanka: Child soldiers free from the battlefield, into the propaganda war

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 446
  Why do I get the feeling that these children are yet again being used?The latest fashion of the town has reached them. Instead of deadly cyanide vials and dog tags, ragged blood stained Tiger uniforms and rubber slippers boys wear silver chains, bracelets, denims, figure hugging T-shirts and sandles decorate ...
  3 weeks ago

• Child soldiers: Challenges remain on child soldiers in Sudan

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 446
  Despite progress in Sudan in the past two years in tackling the problem of children in armed conflict, many challenges remain, ranging from reintegrating child soldiers to dealing with youngsters abducted by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) who have been brainwashed into killing their own parents, a ...
  3 weeks ago

• DR Congo war crimes trial begins - Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui have pleaded not guilty

  
  Congo Watch — Authority: 455
  According to the following report, interethnic violence in DR Congo has claimed the lives of 60,000 people since 1999, NGOs say. From Aljazeera.net (Agencies), Wednesday, November 25, 2009: DR Congo war crimes trial begins Two Congolese men accused of directing an attack on a village, during which at least 200 ...
  3 weeks ago

• ICCs Outreach Programme is active in Uganda, DR Congo, CAR and Darfur (Sudan)

  
  Sudan Watch — Authority: 527
  Currently, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Outreach Programme is active in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and Darfur (Sudan). The programme promotes access to and understanding of judicial proceedings and fosters realistic expectations about the courts work. This ...
  3 weeks ago

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