Both are accused of using child soldiers in attacking civilians in Bogoro village in early 2003, among other war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, sexual slavery, and rape.

Child soldiers in Colombia, a quarter of which are girls, are often forced to commit appalling human right violations. ... (DRC)The conflict that has ravaged the DRC, ...

Worldwide Use of Child Soldiers Continues Unabated. Sharp Increase in Children Fighting in Conflicts Across Africa. ... (DRC)—a massive increase in recruitment occurred during 2003.

Most child soldiers are between the ages of 15 and 18 years, but some are as young as seven. Most, but not all, soldiers under 15 years of age are believed to be part of non-state armed forces.

Security has all but collapsed. Millions are in desperate need of aid and there are constant outbreaks of fighting as the President tries to cling to power. This is the Democratic Republic of ...

More than 300 child soldiers, including 87 girls, have been released in South Sudan's war-torn region of Yambio under a programme to help reintegrate them into society, the UN said on February 7 ...

The current conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has deep historical roots, traceable to the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, during which around 800,000 people, primarily ...

One of Canada’s signature foreign-policy initiatives, a global campaign against child soldiers, ... which recruits and uses children as soldiers in DRC,” Dr. Mukwege said in a tweet last month.

In all five videos, the bodies of the victims are filmed slowly, and the soldiers give detailed accounts of the military operations, and locality – Kabundi and Mfuamba in the August 2016 videos ...

The organization also directly addresses the issue by raising funds for a child soldier rehabilitation program. Carasso will speak at the event alongside Yves Muya, a Congolese refugee and activist.

The Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 aims to encourage foreign governments to stop recruiting and using children in armed conflict by leveraging traditionally coveted U.S. arms transfers and ...

In a day-long open meeting at the UN, officials discussed ways to finally end the terrible scourge of child soldiers. From the UN News Center The Security Council must "take concrete and targeted ...