The Rise of the Child Terrorist
(Foreign Affairs) – On January 15, a video surfaced on the Internet that depicted a 10-year-old Kazakh boy using a gun to execute two Russian members of the Islamic State of Iraq and [...]
(Foreign Affairs) – On January 15, a video surfaced on the Internet that depicted a 10-year-old Kazakh boy using a gun to execute two Russian members of the Islamic State of Iraq and [...]
(Washington Post blog) – Recent acts of terror by Boko Haram in Nigeria have renewed interest in Islamic militancy in Africa. Boko Haram has achieved notoriety in part because it [...]
(The Guardian) – The storming of a military school in Peshawar by the Taliban, who killed 132 children and nine teachers, horrified the world. But it wasn’t an isolated event; attacks on [...]
( UN News Center) – “A moral imperative and a legal obligation,” protecting children should never be jeopardized by national interests, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, [...]
(UN News Centre) – Protecting schools from attacks and military use is essential to ensuring access to education for all children in Africa, a United Nations child rights envoy said today, [...]
(Inter Press Services) – The rising death toll of civilians, specifically women and children, in ongoing military conflicts is generating strong messages of condemnation from international [...]
(BBC) – There has been confusion about the number of girls missing after they were kidnapped from a boarding school in the north-east on Monday night. According to education authorities in [...]
(Child Soldiers International) – Children were used to fight in at least 18 conflicts since 2016 – including as ‘human bombs’ – despite a global ban on the use of children in [...]
(HRW) – Britain’s main political parties will disagree strongly on many issues in this election campaign. But there is broad consensus amongst them on retaining a substantial development [...]
(New York Times) – First the trees dried up and cracked apart. Then the goats keeled over. Then the water in the village well began to disappear, turning cloudy, then red, then slime-green, [...]