Information and Web Links

• Amnesty International - Child soldiers (AI USA including drawings by child soldiers)
• Basic Facts about Child Soldiers ( Human Rights Watch)
• Global use of Child Soldiers - Map of where child soldiers are being used ( Human Rights Watch)
• Children and Conflict - BBC World Service Information on Child Soldiers
• Children and Armed Conflict Project - Child Soldiers Center for Defense Information
• Girls and Conflict - Forgotten casualties of war- Report by Save the Children UK, 2005 (pdf)
• The Graça Machel Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children
• Save The Children - Save the Children's Emergencies and Protection Program
• Human Rights Watch
• International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
• United Nations Cyber Schoolbus
• UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Child Soldiers
• United Nations World Map of Child Soldiers
• Military use of children - information and links at Wikipedia

Articles and Analysis

• Invisible Children - film documentary about the kidnapping of children in Uganda by the Lord’s Resistance Army. Check out the website for the film.
• ABC News Exclusive: Child Soldiers Recall Learning Lessons of War Instead of the Classroom: Former Child Soldiers Give Testimonials in Footage Shown to ABC News (December 2006)
• Use of Children in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Perspective on Child Soldiers (Defence for Children International - Palestine Section) (July 2004) [pdf]
• When Children Affected by War Go Home: Lessons learned from Liberia (Save the Children) (December 2003) (pdf)
• The reintegration of child ex-combatants in Sierra Leone with particular focus on the needs of females Allison Bennett (September 2002)
• Child Soldiers newsletters (Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers)
• Child soldiers, displacement and human security Lisa Alfredson "Disarmament Forum -Children and Security" 2002
• Child Soldiers 1379 Report (Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers) (November 2002)
• Sexual Exploitation of Child Soldiers: An exploration and analysis of global dimensions and trends (Dr. Lisa Alfredson, Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers)
• Global Report on Child Soldiers 2004 (Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers)
• War Games (Kellie Anderson) (World Hunger Education Service)
• The Invisible Soldiers: Child Combatants - Centre for Defence information (Washington)
• What’s Going On? Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone (United Nations campaign)
• International Efforts Address Use of Child Soldiers by Rachel Stohl, Research Analyst, Centre for Defence Information
• The Invisible Soldiers: Child Combatants (The Defense Monitor)
• Stop Using Child Soldiers by Stefania Capodaglio, December 1999
• Child Soldiers: The Road to Recovery (Center for Defense Information)

International & Regional Law and Standards

• UNEDITED version of the draft optional protocol as adopted by consensus, 21 January 2000, by the inter-sessional open-ended Working Group on a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)
• The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts (2000)
• Resolution 1261 adopted- Security Council Strongly Condemns Targeting of Children in Situations of Armed Conflict, including their Recruitment and Use as Soldiers
• International Law on Child Soldiers (Human Rights Watch)
• Amman Declaration on Child Soldiers (April 2001)
• The Capetown Principles (1997)
• European Parliament Resolution on Child Soldiers (1998)
• Maputo Declaration on the Use of Child Soldiers (1999)
• Montevideo Declaration on the Use of Children as Soldiers (July 8, 1999)

Country/Region Specific Information

Africa

• Ugandan army recruiting children (BBC) (February 15, 2005)
• Insecurity, poverty leaves northern children vulnerable to military recruitment - UNICEF (IRIN News) (August 18, 2004)
• Reintegrating child soldiers in DR Congo: fears for the girls (AFP) April 14, 2004)
• Child Soldiers in Southern Africa (Institute for Security Studies)
• Using Children In Armed Conflict: A Legitimate African Tradition? (Institute for Security Studies)
• Press Briefing By Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict On Recent Visit to West Africa (UN Press Briefing) (July 24, 2003)
• The role of children soldiers in northern Uganda is investigated by this week's C4 Unreported World.  (Channel 4) (2003)
• No-one fighting for Angola's child soldiers (BBC) (November 19, 2002)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Reluctant Recruits: Children and Adults Forcibly Recruited for Military Service In North Kive (Human Rights Watch) (May 2001)
• DR Congo: Torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment (OMCT) (October 17, 2001)
• The Use of Child Soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Human Rights Watch)
• Congo Rebel Group Forces Children into Army (Human Rights Watch) (May 29, 2001)
• Sierra Leone: Child soldiers to swap guns for PCs (BBC) (March 25, 2002)
• Sierra Leone: The battle for childhood (BBC) (January 26, 2001)
• Sierra Leone: The Statute of the Special Court must make all recruitment of children under 15 a crime (Amnesty International) (October 20, 2000)
• New Regime, but Continued Human Rights Violations: Despite Promises, the Use and Abuse of Child Soldiers Continues in Sierra Leone
• Uganda: ’They tied me up and hacked off my lips (The Times) (July 19, 2003)

Americas

• Colombia's child soldiers swap guns for home (The Times) (August 1, 2002)
• Paraguay: No Child's Play - underage recruitment into the armed forces must stop (Amnesty International) (April 5, 2001)
• If US opposes child labor - why not child soldiers? (Human Rights Watch)
• Child Soldiers used by all sides in Colombia's Armed Conflict (Human Rights Watch) (1998)

Asia Pacific

• The problem of child soldiers: listening to young combatants in East Asia (ID21) (July 1, 2003)
• Adult wars, child soldiers: voices of children involved in armed conflict in the East Asia and Pacific region (UNICEF) (October 2002)
• UNICEF urges demobilization and reintegration of child soldiers - Up to one quarter of the world's child soldiers in East Asia and the Pacific.

Europe

• Serb pupils learnt tactics of terror (The Times) (June 1999)
• UNICEF questions UK's right to deploy child soldiers in cases of 'genuine military need' (UNICEF) (July 2003)
• United Kingdom U-18s: Report on Recruitment and Deployment of Child Soldiers (Amnesty International) (November 2000)

Middle East and North Africa

• Middle East and North Africa - Never Again: Children Should Not Fight in Adult Wars (Amman Conference) (Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers) (April 2001)

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