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• There Are 250,000 Child Soldiers Worldwide

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  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 ...
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• Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (67): Child Soldiers

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 478
  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 ...
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• Nicolas Cage receives UN’s Global Citizen of the Year award

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  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 ...
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• Child soldiers: Nepals former Maoist child soldiers trapped in camps

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 444
  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 ...
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• KASSIM THE DREAM - From Child Soldier To Boxing Superstar

  
  / HAMMER TO NAIL — Authority: 121
  ( 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 ...
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• Bagram Interviews, ACLU Letter on Child Prisoners, Obama Seals Up Secrets

  
  Invictus — Authority: 464
  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 ...
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• Unsettling profile of war crimes ambassador

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 480
  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 ...
  6 days ago

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

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 444
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Child soldiers: Challenges remain on child soldiers in Sudan

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 444
  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 ...
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• DR Congo war crimes trial begins - Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui have pleaded not guilty

  
  Congo Watch — Authority: 462
  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 ...
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• ICCs Outreach Programme is active in Uganda, DR Congo, CAR and Darfur (Sudan)

  
  Sudan Watch — Authority: 528
  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 ...
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• ICCs Outreach Programme is active in Uganda, DR Congo, CAR and Darfur (Sudan)

  
  Uganda Watch — Authority: 506
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Congo Watch — Authority: 462
  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 in ...
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• World Briefing | Africa: Congo: Trial Begins for 2 Accused of Ordering Children to Destroy Village

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  The Congolese militia leaders sent child soldiers and other fighters in an attack that left more than 200 people dead, a prosecutor told judges at the International Criminal Court.
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• UN says children in Sudan will no longer be sentenced to death

  
  Sudan Watch — Authority: 528
  Untitled report by Sudan Radio Service , November 23, 2009: (Khartoum) - The United Nations says the Government of National Unity has announced that children will no longer be sentenced to death. Addressing a press conference in Khartoum on Sunday at the end of her visit to Sudan, the Special Representative of the ...
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• Child soldiers: Sudan - agreement to end use of child soldiers

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 444
  Child soldiers at a military camp in Nyal, southern SudanA top United Nations human rights official today welcomed a deal agreed by a former rebel group in southern Sudan to end the use of child soldiers among its ranks, while warning of the threat posed to children by various armed militia operating in the region.The ...
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• UN celebrates 20 years of child rights convention

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New York, Nov 20 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday called the 20-year-old Convention on the Rights of the Child as a beacon and guide to protect “the youngest and most vulnerable members of society”.The convention was signed into international law in 1989 by the UN General Assembly and it took effect ...
  2 weeks ago

• Twentieth Anniversary of UN’S Convention on Rights of the Child – Has it Made a Difference?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 589
  Today is the 20th anniversary of UN’s Convention on Rights of the Child and various ceremonies are being held all over the world to mark the event. This Convention on Rights of the Child (CRC) was signed in 1989 and it endorses and guarantees basic right of all children to life, education, play and protection from ...
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• Rights of The Child: Photographers and celebrities make Photo-Pledge for Childrens Rights

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 444
  LONDON, November 20 -- Sony World Photography Awards and UNICEF Mark the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)The World Photography Organisation and UNICEF are launching a global initiative to raise awareness of childrens rights and mark the 20th anniversary of the ...
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• Kenya Recruits Somali Refugees To Fight Islamists Back Home In Somalia

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 683
  (Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya) For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of Somalia. The one that finally drove him from Somalia tore though his familys house and ripped a cousin to bits, splattering Ahmed with blood and body parts. ...
  3 weeks ago

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