(OSRSG-CAAC) – The rights of children are being violated in conflict situations with total impunity, a United Nations official said today, as she presented a report on grave abuses [...]
(OSRSG-CAAC) – I remain deeply concerned about the fate of over 230 girls violently abducted from their school by Boko Haram in Borno State, Nigeria on the night of April 14. Today’s new [...]
(IRIN) – Reports on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Nigeria released in July 2014 at the Open Society Institute in New York reveal failures in human rights vetting for soldiers in countries [...]
(OSRSG-CAAC) – Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, alerted the General Assembly that in the past few months, the intensity [...]
(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 [...]
(HRW) – Yesterday the United States State Department released a new snapshot of how governments around the world are doing in ending their use of child soldiers. Its 2015 list names eight [...]
( 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, [...]
(Global Brief) – Extreme violence against children affected by armed conflict is not only a humanitarian issue, but also a security concern with lasting implications. As children are forced [...]
