Directory of Child Soldiers Resources

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• BBC News - Child Soldiers: Children of Conflict

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconflict/soldier.shtml
  Most of the victims are obviously boys. Listen to child soldiers, wounded, lost and working children tell their stories in sound files.

• Child Soldier Use 2003

  http://hrw.org/reports/2004/childsoldiers0104/
  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

  http://www.amnestyusa.org/Children/Child_Soldiers/page.do?id=1051047&n1=3&n2=78&n3=1270
  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.

• Children and War

  http://www.icrc.org/eng/children
  International Committee of the Red Cross information on the fate of children caught up in the turmoil of conflict.Includes information on children, war and humanitarian law.

• Children in Conflict: Child Soldiers

  http://child-soldier.org/
  Gives details of projects around the world by SOS Children for child soldiers including current conflicts and a look back with ex-soldiers at past conflicts.

• Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

  http://www.child-soldiers.org/
  Nonprofit activist group working to stop the recruitment of children in war.

• Impact of Armed Conflict on Children: Child Soldiers

  http://www.un.org/rights/concerns.htm#soldiers
  Extract from the report of Graca Machel, expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.

• Reluctant Recruits: Children and Adults Forcibly Recruited for Military Service in N. Kivu (Congo)

  http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/drc3/
  Human Rights Watch report (29 May 2001)points to the continued recruitment of children by the major Congolese rebel group.

• UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict: Child Soldiers

  http://www.un.org/special-rep/children-armed-conflict/English/ChildSoldiers.html
  Website of the office of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary -General for Children in Armed Conflict focusing on child soldiers.

• UNICEF: Impact of Armed Conflict on Children

  http://www.unicef.org/graca/
  Full text of and other information surrounding the official report produced by Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.

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