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. www.amnestyusa.org/children/soldiers
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/eng/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/graca
Provides up-to-date information, reports and documents on the impact of armed conflicts on children including child soldiers. www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/default.htm
Human Rights Watch report (29 May 2001)points to the continued recruitment of children by the major Congolese rebel group. www.hrw.org/reports/2001/drc3
Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide. www.vachss.com/help_text/child_soldiers.html
Focuses particularly on the use of children in the Middle East conflict.The site consists of reports, factsheets, articles and a petition against the use child combatants. www.operationsick.com
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/Pubs/Monographs/No32/Contents.html
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 des www.hrw.org/reports/2003/colombia0903
Documents the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war and offers recommendations on reintegrating these children into civil society. hrw.org/reports/2004/liberia0204
Documents the deployment of children as combatants, to commit abuses against civilians, as sex slaves, forced labourers, messengers, informants and servants in continuing and newly erupting conflicts. hrw.org/reports/2004/childsoldiers0104
Provides facts and information on child soldiers including international policy guidelines, methods and practices and relevant worldwide organisations. www.ginie.org/ginie-crises-links/childsoldiers
Website of the office of the UN Special Represntative of the Secretary -General for Children in Armed Conflict focusing on child soldiers. www.un.org/../../English/ChildSoldiers.html
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