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	Stop Using Child Soldiers, by Stefania Capodaglio, December 1999
		Child soldiers are considered to be all children under 18 according to Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
		Child soldiers may be kidnapped or forced by adults to join an army.
		The letter, identifying the use of children as soldiers as "one of the most alarming and tragic trends in modern warfare," was signed by the leaders of forty human rights, religious, peace, humanitarian, child welfare, veterans and professional organizations.
	www.wagingpeace.org /articles/1999/12/00_capodaglio_child-soldiers.htm (2840 words)

	OCHA IRIN \| In-depth \| Child soldiers \| AFRICA: Too small to be fighting in anyone's war
		Child soldiers are often abducted from their homes, schools or communities and forced into combat, whether by government forces, rebel groups or paramilitary militias.
		Many child soldiers report psycho-social disturbances - from nightmares and angry aggression that is difficult to control to strongly anti-social behaviour and substance abuse - both during their involvement in war and after their return to civilian life.
		Many child soldiers grow up physically and psychologically scarred and prone to violence, increasing the danger of future cycles of conflict and damaging the chances of peaceful, stable democracy that are demonstrably linked to human and social well-being.
	www.irinnews.org /webspecials/childsoldiers (2620 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Child Soldiers
		This report details the many abuses committed against child soldiers and the violations that children were forced to commit against civilians-as described by the children themselves.
		The overwhelming majority of Burma's child soldiers are found in Burma's national army, the Tatmadaw Kyi, which forcibly recruits children as young as eleven, subjects them to brutal training, forces them to engage in combat, and participate in human rights abuses against civilians.
		Soldiers recruited children from the camps to spy for them, to help them loot property, and to serve as lookouts, scouts, and porters when they are on patrol.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/crp/index.htm (1599 words)

	Child soldiers, an unacceptable truth--John Harris
		To ensure lasting compliance, many child soldiers are forced to commit heinous crimes and witness atrocities that make them party to the killing and therefore, in their minds, responsible.
		Sanctioned governmental use of child soldiers is a severe burden on the social architecture of a nation, and represents a breakdown of normal human restraint on placing children at risk during war.
		Many child soldiers have grown into adulthood without having known their families for long periods, sometime more than a decade, and the normal developmental opportunities that accompany family life are all but unknown.
	www.gse.harvard.edu /~t656_web/peace/Articles_Spring_2003/Harris_John_ChildSoldiers.htm (3849 words)

	Facing Saddam's Child Soldiers
		Given the large number of child soldiers in Iraq and their apparent importance to the regime's survival strategy, U.S. and allied forces should be prepared to face child soldiers in a potential invasion of Iraq.
		Because Iraq's child soldiers have been rigorously indoctrinated by the regime, the flow of the war and even the disintegration of resistance by regular Iraqi military forces may have little impact on their actions.
		When professional forces face child soldiers, their opponents are still children, a special category of individuals traditionally considered outside the scope of war.
	www.mafhoum.com /press4/129P51.htm (2362 words)

	The Facts About Child Soldiers
		Child soldiering is a unique and severe manifestation of trafficking in persons that involves the recruitment of children through force, fraud, or coercion to be exploited for their labor or to be abused as sex slaves in conflict areas.
		While the majority of child soldiers are between the ages of 15 and 18, some are as young as 7 or 8 years of age.
		Child soldiers are often killed or wounded, with survivors often suffering multiple traumas and psychological scarring.
	www.state.gov /g/tip/rls/fs/2005/50941.htm (561 words)

	Directory - Society: Issues: Children, Youth and Family: Child Soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Child Soldiers · 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.
		Child Soldiers Resources · iweb · cached · Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide.
		Child Soldier Use 2003 · iweb · cached · 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.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=269955 (796 words)

	Child Soldiers
		Child soldiers are usually recruited because there aren't enough adults who are available or willing to become soldiers.
		Once recruited as soldiers children generally are treated as adults and are often inducted into brutal ceremonies, and are often humiliated and embarrassed.
		Child soldiers suffer many of the same physical and psychological effects that war brings to noncombatant children.
	www.usm.maine.edu /~kuzma/security/welch/childsoldiers.html (387 words)

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		Child soldiers are generally defined as all people under 18 who participate in military or political armed conflict.
		Child soldiers are maimed, crippled, tortured, and abused sexually.
		It is often quite difficult for former child soldiers to be welcomed back into their original communities because they are often at risk of being identified as perpetrators of violence and murder.
	www.crwrc.org /dip/faqs.htm (394 words)

	Over 300,000 Child Soldiers Fighting In Today's Global Conflicts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rory Mungoven, coordinator of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (CSUCS), said child soldiers, combatants under the age of 18, were used in all parts of the world, especially in Africa and Asia.
		Child soldiers had also played a major part in the militias involved in the violence in East Timor, as well as in local conflicts in India, he said.
		Mungoven said there was a growing movement around the world to ban child soldiers and classify the forced recruitment of children as a war crime.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines/051000-02.htm (311 words)

	Sierra Leone: Child Soldiers
		Child soldiers are found from Central America to the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, and from Belfast in the north to Angola in the south.
		Child soldiers and insecurity Child soldiering violates the fundamental rights of children, exploits youth for political purposes, subjects them to slaughter and the ravages of war, and immerses them in a system that sanctions killing.
		And former child soldiers are often reluctant to identify themselves because they fear rejection by their communities or retribution from their former commanders-or from those whom they once attacked.
	pangaea.org /street_children/africa/armies.htm (5074 words)

	Child soldiers
		Child soldiers usually are made to commit serious crimes alongside adult soldiers in such strife-torn places as Darfur, the Congo, Sierra Leone, Philippines, Nepal and Colombia.
		But there are cases of child soldiers clearly in control of their actions, "who were not coerced, drugged or forced into committing atrocities.
		Children are often crucial witnesses, especially in cases relating to the recruitment of child soldiers, abduction and other crimes that explicitly target children.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-10/unu-cs101806.php (843 words)

	Child soldiers add to Liberia tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A child soldier wearing a teddy bear backpack points his gun at a photographer in a street of Monrovia on June 27.
		Most child soldiers have been press-ganged into service or joined voluntarily to avenge the deaths of family members, or to seek protection among rebel or government forces.
		Child soldiers are used in at least 85 countries -- notably in Africa and Asia, including: Liberia, Congo, Uganda, Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Colombia and Paraguay.
	www.msnbc.com /news/945577.asp?0sl=-11 (1582 words)

	Child Soldiers Changing a Culture of Violence - Human Rights Magazine, Winter 2005
		The ranks of child soldiers include boys as young as eight recruited into paramilitaries in Colombia, girls trained as suicide bombers by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, and children kidnapped from their homes by rebels in Northern Uganda.
		Many child soldiers are girls, who are expected to fight and are also often subjected to rape or sexual exploitation.
		In countries where use of child soldiers is routine, recruiters are rarely, if ever, held to account for recruiting children under the age prescribed by law or policy.
	www.abanet.org /irr/hr/winter05/childsoldiers.html (1369 words)

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		Child soldiers were used extensively by government forces and rebel groups during the 12-year civil war that began in 2003.
		Child soldiers were reportedly used by government and opposition forces during the war between 2001 and 2003.
		In 2003, an estimated 30,000 child soldiers needed demobilising.
	www.alertnet.org /childsoldiers7.htm (514 words)

	Child Soldiers : Webguide & Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Denied a childhood and often subjected to horrific violence, some 300,000 children are serving as soldiers in current armed conflicts.
		Child soldiers are being used in more than thirty countries around the world.
		Because of their immaturity and lack of experience, child soldiers suffer higher casualties than their adult counterparts.
	www.worldrevolution.org /guide/childsoldiers (103 words)

	SADOCC - News - Child soldiers forgotten in Angola
		Child soldiers who fought in the Angolan civil war have been excluded from demobilization programs, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released April 29.
		But child soldiers, many of whom performed the same duties as adults, were denied these benefits.
		Beyond the hardships of war, child soldiers were deprived of educational, vocational and developmental opportunities.
	www.sadocc.at /news/2003-123.shtml (572 words)

	Sponsor a Child - SOS Children Child Soldier Projects
		Former Child Soldiers may at best have their needs forgotten and at worst even be blamed by their communities for what they did and what happened.
		Our other current child soldier projects include rehabilitation of Sudan child soldiers in Sudan where SOS is providing family-tracing, counselling, education and support for child soldiers now trying to rebuild their lives.
		Another of our children, who was forced to became a child soldier and join the conflict, only to lose a leg to a land-mine, is interviewed on our Rwanda page.
	soschildrensvillages.org.uk /sos-children-charity/child-soldiers.htm (364 words)

	Facing Saddam's Child Soldiers - Brookings Institution
		Given the large number of child soldiers in Iraq and their apparent importance to the regime's survival strategy, U.S. and allied forces should be prepared to face child soldiers in a potential invasion of Iraq.
		Because Iraq's child soldiers have been rigorously indoctrinated by the regime, the flow of the war and even the disintegration of resistance by regular Iraqi military forces may have little impact on their actions.
		Child soldiers could slow the progress of U.S. forces, particularly when operating in an urban environment, and needlessly add to casualty totals on both sides.
	www.brookings.edu /papers/2003/0114iraq_singer.aspx (2442 words)

	Child soldiers - Canadian Aid for Southern Sudan
		All over war-torn southern Sudan, child soldiers are laying down their arms, putting aside their uniforms, and making their way back to their homes.
		The recently established Task Force for the Demobilization of Child Soldiers has gone a long way to convincing other governments that the southern movement is dealing seriously with the problem.
		Most child soldiers were enlisted when they made their way to army camps in search for food and protection.
	www.web.net /cass/childsoldiers.htm (463 words)

	First Anniversary of UN Child Soldiers Treaty (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Coalition warned the international community against assuming that the issue of child soldiers could be struck-off simply because their use was now banned by international law.
		The issue of child soldiers has been addressed at the UN Security Council, which has taken a landmark decision to name the names of those who are recruiting child soldiers.
		The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers was formed in 1998.
	www.xaviermissionaries.org /M_Life/NewsArchive/AmericaNews/UN_ChildSol_Treaty.htm (470 words)

	PROMISES BROKEN: The Use of Children as Soldiers
		Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the definition of a child is any person under the age of eighteen, unless under the law applicable to the child majority is attained earlier.
		In 1998, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers was set up in order to campaign for a strong optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child which would prohibit any recruitment or use of children under the age of eighteen in armed conflict.
		The recruitment of child soldiers continues around the world, those responsible for their recruitment escape justice, and key governments continue to resist efforts to establish and enforce the prohibitions necessary to end the use of children as soldiers.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/crp/promises/soldiers.html (1062 words)

	friendly printed version:Latin American Conference Addresses Child Soldiers
		A conference aiming to highlight the plight and use of child soldiers around the world was held in Montevideo, Uruguay from July 5-8, 1999.
		The conference, organized by the International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers in cooperation with the Inter-American Children's Institute of the Organization of America States, and hosted by the Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, focused primarily on the use of child soldiers in Latin America.
		Child soldiers are used in large numbers in Latin America, but public consciousness has not yet been raised about this problem.
	www.cdi.org /friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=587 (426 words)

	Child Fighters Would Pose Ethical Nightmare for Allied Troops in Gulf
		Experts say troops who encounter child soldiers are usually unwilling to return fire and suffer severe trauma if they have to shoot.
		In September 2000, British soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment were taken hostage in Sierra Leone by child soldiers, largely because the commanding officer was not prepared to "fire on children armed with AK-47s".
		"Child soldiers are a problem all over the world but it is something we in the West are not accustomed to," he said.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines03/0116-04.htm (594 words)

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		The Child Soldiers Demoblisation and Reintegration Programme is designed to target an estimated 8,000 such children in the country mostly forcibly conscripted to fighting forces in the last years of more than two decades of armed conflict and civil war.
		The child soldier demobilisation effort is running parallel to the UN-backed main Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintegration initiative (DDR) programme, which is expected to target over 50,000 ex-soldiers across the country.
		According to UNICEF, the criteria for eligibility in the scheme are that a child soldier should have been, or still is, in a military unit which has a formal command structure and they should have been involved in activities that are directly related to that unit.
	irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=44706&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&... (596 words)

	Stolen kids turned into terrifying killers - CNN.com
		In some cultures, child soldiers -- 40 percent of whom can be girls -- are considered expendable "cannon fodder," she said.
		Child soldiers were on the agenda for a U.N. Security Council working committee Friday.
		Child soldiers have been used in the past decade in more than 30 countries, according to the United Nations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which said young fighters were active in at least 19 countries last year.
	www.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/africa/02/12/child.soldiers/index.html (1070 words)

	child soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A child soldier is any person under 18 years of age who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group in any capacity, including but not limited to cooks, porters, messengers and anyone accompanying such groups, other than family members.
		The resolution reaffirms earlier commitments that the council would consider imposing targeted sanctions, such as a ban on arms exports and imports, against parties that violate international law on the rights and protection of children in armed conflict.
		Concerned at the delay in adopting the resolution, a group of Western nations told the council in a letter it was high time to fulfill its promises on protecting children.
	www.peaceforkids.org /childsoldiers.html (535 words)

	iranian.com: Buddahead, Child soldiers
		Warchild, the Canadian organization, is the closest to my heart because as a child of war, I am very sensitive to the use and therefore abuse of children during war.
		What makes this even more of a tragedy is that because of their lack of experience as soldiers and because of their lack of judgment as men, child soldiers suffer much higher rates of casualty that adult soldiers.
		One thing is certain: During the Iran and Iraq war Iran's military used Child Soldiers and although there may be very little if any use of children in the military at this time, until quite recently, there had been.
	www.iranian.com /Buddahead/2004/December/Iranian/2.html (1114 words)

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