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	UNICEF - Countries in crisis - Child soldiers
		Produced by UNICEF and the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, this publication is an essential guide to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child related to children in armed conflict.
		As part of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers Amnesty International is campaigning for states to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
		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.
	www.unicef.org /emerg/index_childsoldiers.html (674 words)

	Kathmandu Declaration on the Use of Children as Soldiers
		The event, organised by the international NGO Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and hosted by His Majesty's Government of Nepal, was the fourth in a series of regional conferences aimed at highlighting the worldwide exploitation of children as soldiers and building momentum and effective strategies for a global ban on this abuse.
		The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers presented to the conference a draft research report on the use of children as soldiers in Asia and the Pacific.
		Although the use of child soldiers contravenes the "best interest" of the child, one of the core principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the CRC does not prohibit the recruitment of Child Soldiers over the age of 15 years.
	www.hri.ca /children/reports/asia2000/confreport_asia.html (9338 words)

	Coalition Calls for UN Sanctions Against Child Soldiers in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A coalition fighting the use of children as soldiers is calling on the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions against African countries that continue to use child soldiers.
		In a report detailing the global use of children as soldiers, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers says many children in Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and Uganda are engaged in war.
		The coalition is calling on the U.N. Security Council, which meets Thursday and Friday in Nairobi, to impose sanctions on the countries that continue to use child soldiers.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/ei/2004-11-17-voa65.html (539 words)

	JRS: Press Release of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers - 12 February 2002
		Thousands of red hands, the logo of the 'Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers', were planted symbolically in the grounds of the United Nations Palais des Nations in Geneva to draw attention to more than 300,000 child soldiers still fighting in today's armed conflicts and wars.
		Similar campaign events to mark the occasion are being organised by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers in Bangladesh, Belgium, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Rwanda, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uganda, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
		The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers was formed in May 1998 by leading non-governmental organisations to seek to end the military recruitment and participation in armed conflict of all children under 18 years of age.
	www.jesref.org /old/inf/statemen/csucs.htm (601 words)

	Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: Report shows child soldier use continues unabated - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers unites national, regional and international organisations and Coalitions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
		· Use other means to enforce an international ban on child soldiering, such as travel restrictions on leaders using children in their armies, banning them from attending international events and organisations, ending military assistance to their governments or groups, and restricting the flow of financial resources to the parties concerned.
		The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers is comprised of national, regional and international organisations and Coalitions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Middle East.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGACT760022004?open&of=ENG-364 (873 words)

	Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: Queen Rania of Jordan to launch landmark conference on the use of children ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: Queen Rania of Jordan to launch landmark conference on the use of children as soldiers in the Middle East and North Africa - Amnesty International
		On the eve of the conference the Coalition will release highlights of a major country-by-country report on the use of child soldiers in national armies and armed groups of North Africa and the Middle East, from Algeria to Sudan, comprehensively documenting this problem in the region for the first time.
		This Conference is the fifth organised by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/ENGMDE010042001 (432 words)

	Choike - Child soldiers
		While most child soldiers are aged between 15 and 18, many are recruited from the age of 10 and sometimes even younger.
		The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (or 'child soldiers’ treaty') was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in May 2000 and came into force on 13 February 2002.
		A coalition of groups is urging U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to prepare an annual list of governments and groups that recruit or use child soldiers or fail to protect children during military conflicts.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/972.html (1246 words)

	Children Rights
		He called on concerned governments and other key international actors to use their collective weight and influence to deny political legitimacy, diplomatic recognition, the supply of weapons or flow of funds to those responsible for committing atrocities and abuses against children.
		The Coalition estimated that upwards of 75,000 children were fighting in governmental armed forces, paramilitary groups or militia and non-governmental armed groups throughout the region, some having been forcibly recruited.
		Many former child soldiers who have come to the US have subsequently picked up guns – this was all they knew.
	www.hri.ca /children/reports/asia2000/confreport_asia.shtml (9329 words)

	Stop The Use Of Child Soldiers! - Stopping the Use of Child Soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Through a new international coalition, Human Rights Watch and other leading international organizations are campaigning for an international ban on the recruitment of children under the age of eighteen into armed forces.
		The campaign's goals include US support for an international ban on the use of child soldiers, and the elimination of US military aid that facilitates the use of child soldiers by other governments or organizations.
		Questions and answers about efforts to ban the use of child soldiers.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/crp/stopping.htm (138 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source
		It is this social aspect, plus the logistical problem of reaching remote opposition factions, that has proved the biggest hurdle in shaping tougher measures against states and groups that condone the use of child soldiers.
		A year ago the Security Council pressed for an immediate halt to the use of child soldiers by passing Resolution 1460, which identified 23 armed factions worldwide recruiting children and calculated the number of victims at 300,000.
		Myanmar, the Asian country on the child soldier fllist that is arguably most vulnerable to UN sanctions, portrayed itself as a victim of outside political pressures, in an angry retort to the study by the human-rights coalition.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Front_Page/FA30Aa01.html (1310 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Issues: Children, Youth and Family: Child Soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Child Soldier Use 2003 - 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.
		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.
		Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: Global Report - The most recent and comprehensive study to date on the use of child soldiers globally.
	dmoz.org /Society/Issues/Children,_Youth_and_Family/Child_Soldiers (847 words)

	The Use of Children as Soldiers in Africa report
		In March 1998, at the trial of a 13-year-old DRC soldier who had shot and killed a local Red Cross volunteer in Kinshasa after a dispute on a football pitch, even the prosecution declared that the lack of control of boy soldiers was as much the fault of their older commanders and constituted extenuating circumstances.
		In January 1997, 212 child soldiers between the ages of 13 and 17 were demobilized from the Angolan armed forces.
		Thanks to this, the use of child soldiers was considerably reduced by both the rebels and the regular armed forces.
	www.reliefweb.int /library/documents/chilsold.htm (15068 words)

	Coalition to stop the use of Child Soldiers
		The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers works to prevent the recruitment and use of children as soldiers, to secure their demobilisation and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration into society.
		We have developed a psycho-social section to foster a constructive inter and intra-disciplinary dialogue on relevant psycho-social issues in the area of children and armed conflict.
		Most child soldiers are adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18, who have joined up "voluntarily" to survive in war-torn regions or to avenge violence inflicted on family members
	www.child-soldiers.org (243 words)

	Themes: CHILD SOLDIERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Amman conference on the use of child soldiers 8-10 April 2001 - Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
		Child soldiers in the UK: Analysis of recruitment and deployment practices of under-18s and the CRC (Rachel Harvey, The Children and Armed Conflict Unit) (June 2002) [Word]
		Child Soldiers: Beyond the Optional Protocol Rory Mungoven Coordinator Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (From the Winnipeg conference 10-17 September 2000)
	www.essex.ac.uk /armedcon/themes/child_soldiers/default.htm (2148 words)

	Global Reports [Coalition to stop the use of Child Soldiers] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Some important developments relating to the recruitment and use of child soldiers between the end of March and the end of July 2004 are referred to in the report's introduction and regional overviews.
		Country ratifications of relevant international treaties are up to date as of August 2004 and are included in the country data at the top of each entry, and in the global data summary chart.
		Information was also provided by Coalition members and partners and by local non-governmental organizations, journalists, lawyers, activists and others in many countries.
	www.child-soldiers.org /resources/global-reports (431 words)

	Group urges stop to recruitment of child soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Silverio said these child soldiers are prone to violence that may affect their physical, mental and emotional development.
		With this, the coalition also called on the government to follow its obligations to protect children in general and child soldiers in particular.
		The coalition is set to conduct a research and documentation on the formation of a national database regarding child soldiers.
	www.mindanews.com /2003/11/13nws-childsoldiers.html (658 words)

	Australian Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers - MAPW Australia
		The Australian Coalition was formed in December in 1998 as a national partner to the International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers.
		The Australian Coalition held an International Conference in Melbourne, 8th and 9th September 1999.
		To support the work of the International Coalition in engaging governments and armed groups around the world to protect children from either recruitment in to the armed forces or participation in hostilities.
	www.mapw.org.au /childsoldiers/childind.htm (453 words)

	CNNfyi.com - Child soldiers in Myanmar's front line - June 13, 2001
		HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- The southeast Asian country of Myanmar, also known as Burma, has 50,000 child soldiers working for both government and opposition armies, according to a report released Tuesday by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers.
		Children are also used as soldiers outside the army, for opposition groups such as the Mong Tai Army and the Karen National Union (KNU).
		The child soldier report comes one day after U.S.-based Human Rights Watch condemned Myanmar for still using forced labor, despite an official ban on the practice imposed eight months ago.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/fyi/news/06/13/child.soldiers (753 words)

	Africa: Press Release on Child Soldiers, 4/19/99
		A new report on child soldiers in Africa launched today by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers finds that more than 120,000 children under 18 years of age are being used as soldiers across the continent.
		Speaking at the launch of the report in Maputo, Stuart Maslen, the Coordinator of the Coalition declared that "it represented a catalogue of shocking abuse against African children." He called upon governments to stop recruiting children into their own armed forces and to end all support to rebel groups that used children as soldiers.
		The Coalition, which is headed by seven international NGOs, was formed in May 1998.The research for the report was prepared thanks to financial support from UNESCO and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Hornet/irin_41999e.html (993 words)

	Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: Launch of Child Soldiers Global Report 2004
		International launch of 'Child Soldiers Global Report 2004', the world's most comprehensive survey of child soldiers to date.
		The report will be published by a coalition of the world's leading human rights and humanitarian organisations, including Amnesty International, Defence for Children International, Human Rights Watch, Jesuit Refugee Service, the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva, Save the Children Alliance, Terre des Hommes and World Vision.
		Nicki East or Casey Kelso at the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers.
	www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=80256DD400782B8480256F39005D437E (355 words)

	ReliefWeb » Professional Resources » Vacancies
		Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (CSC)
		Coalition of human rights and humanitarian organisations to stop the use of child soldiers
		The International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, of which International Save the Children Alliance is a founding member, seeks candidates for a 6-month fixed term research consultancy on child soldiers in West Africa (with possible job extension into a new position of West Africa Project Manager, pending funds).
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-696LMB?OpenDocument (332 words)

	PRESS CONFERENCE BY COALITION TO STOP USE OF CHILD SOLDIERS
		Kelso said the CSC considered the upcoming meeting a breakthrough, because although there had been two or three Council resolutions on children and armed conflict in the past, resolution 1379 went beyond previous resolutions, creating a mechanism to quantify the use of children in armed conflict.
		Thirdly, the Coalition asked the Security Council to commit itself to follow up on the parties named in this year’s discussion, inviting those governments and groups, as well as others, to explain their use of child soldiers and engage them in a dialogue on how to end it.
		Kelso, the Coalition was also holding an all-day symposium to discuss the policy implications of resolution 1379 and how to make it a reality. The symposium was expected to bring together academics, human rights and humanitarian organizations and United Nations experts. It would be held at UNICEF House in New York tomorrow.
	www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/2002/CoalitionPC.doc.htm (309 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Bush Administration deposited the instrument of ratification for the Child Soldiers Protocol with the U.N. on December 23, 2002.
		The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers continued its campaigning efforts to achieve broad ratification and implementation of the protocol.
		Coalition members, including national campaigns in many countries, lobbied governments to sign and/or ratify the protocol in advance of the session.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/intlhr/chapter3.doc (495 words)

	Child soldiers -- Governments agree to ban use of child combatants but treaty fails to ....
		Child soldiers -- Governments agree to ban use of child combatants but treaty fails to....
		Child soldiers -- Governments agree to ban use of child combatants but treaty fails to prohibit all recruitment of under-18's
		The international Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers is headed by a Steering Committee
	www.somaliawatch.org /archive/000125103.htm (745 words)

	CWA \| CWA - Resources : References on Working Children : Child Soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"Child soldiers: One of the worst froms of child labour." Child Workers in Asia 15:7--9.
		Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soliders and the International Save the Children.
		Hilton, A. "No childhood at all: Child soldiers in Burma." Child Workers in Asia 15:10-13.
	www.cwa.tnet.co.th /References/ref_childsoldiers.html (156 words)

	P.O.V. - The Flute Player . Resources . Child Soldiers \| PBS
		Visit the organization's website to learn more about child soldiers, view the U.N. protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, and find out about the latest news regarding child soldiers around the world.
		UNICEF is website offers extensive links to updated policy statements on child soldiers and their reintegration/rehabilitation, details of the Optional Protocol, and information on Security Council Resolution No. 1314 on children and war.
		The Committee on the Rights of the Child monitors how well nations are meeting their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2003/thefluteplayer/resources_04.html (329 words)

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