(OSRSG-CAAC) – The year 2014 was marked by a multiplication of conflicts and made children even more vulnerable to the effects of war, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General [...]
(HRW) – The Obama administration should require foreign governments receiving United States military aid to immediately end their use of child soldiers, Human Rights Watch said today. On [...]
(The Independent) – The White House has announced it will continue supplying military aid to governments known to use child soldiers, drawing criticism from international human rights [...]
(Christian Science Monitor) – An estimated 19 million children have been caught up in world conflicts but perhaps the most famous may be Amina Ali Nkeki . She was one of 219 girls abducted [...]
(Institute for Security Studies) – A recent report by The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on the impact of Boko Haram on children in Chad, Nigeria, Niger and [...]
(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, [...]
(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 [...]
(OSRSG-CAAC) – Increasingly complex, widening or relapsing conflicts showed no signs of abating in 2015 and had a devastating impact on children, Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative [...]
(OSRSG-CAAC) – Increasingly complex and widening conflicts have taken a huge toll on children in much of the Middle East in 2015, with parts of Africa and Asia facing protracted and [...]
(OSRSG-CAAC) – As we celebrate Universal Children’s Day and the progress accomplished to protect the rights of boys and girls around the world, we are also reminded that brutal conflicts [...]
