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- UN Moves to Protect Children in Armed Conflict (Jul 26, 2005 United Nations)
The U.N. Security Council has adopted a resolution aimed at preventing warring factions from recruiting child soldiers and abusing children.
- Focus: More than 300,000 Child Soldiers Involved in Armed Conflicts (May 31, 2005 Washington)
More than 300,000 young people under the age of 18 are actively involved in armed conflicts worldwide.
- Report: 120,000 Girls Abducted by Armed Groups (Apr 25, 2005)
A new report says of the estimated 300,000 child soldiers around the world, about 40 percent of them are girls.
- Aid Group: 120,000 Girls Forced into Armed Conflict (Apr 25, 2005)
The international relief group Save the Children says more than 120,000 girls and young women around the world have been forced to take an active role in armed conflicts, many of them to serve as child soldiers.
- DRC: UN Agency Expresses Concern over Thousands of Children in Armed Groups (Apr 5, 2005 Nairobi)
Despite 3,313 child soldiers being disarmed in the last six months in Congo's northeastern district of Ituri, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concerned over thousands others yet to be released by armed groups.
- Human Rights Watch: Ivory Coast Government Recruiting Child Soldiers (Mar 31, 2005 Abidjan)
An international human rights body says that Ivory Coast forces have recruited hundreds of children among refugees and former child soldiers from Liberia.
- War Crimes Trial Starts in Sierra Leone (Mar 8, 2005 Abidjan)
Three members of Sierra Leone's former military government have gone on trial for crimes which include murder, rape, sexual slavery, and use of child soldiers.
- UN Says Use of Child Soldiers Widespread, But Declining (Feb 23, 2005 United Nations)
The United Nations reports slow but significant progress in the campaign to protect children exposed to war.
- Some Progress Reported Against Recruiting Child Soldiers in Colombia (Feb 23, 2005 Washington)
The United Nations says 'some progress' has been made in ending the recruitment and use of child soldiers by three armed groups in Colombia that the U.S. State Department has designated as foreign terrorist organizations.
- LRA Rebels Abducting Fewer Children In Northern Uganda (Feb 21, 2005 Geneva)
The U.N. Children's Fund says in Uganda the rebel Lord's Resistance Army is abducting fewer children for use as child soldiers.
- Tamil Rebels Free Child Soldiers Recruited after Tsunami (Feb 4, 2005 New Delhi)
In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tiger rebels have freed 23 child soldiers recruited in the aftermath of December's tsunami disaster.
- UNICEF Charges Sri Lanka Rebels with Recruiting Child Soldiers (Jan 26, 2005 New Delhi)
Officials with the U.N. Children's Fund in Sri Lanka say they have confirmed 40 cases of children being abducted or recruited as soldiers by the Tamil Tiger rebel group.
- UNICEF Fears More Child Recruitment in Congo ( Dec 18, 2004 Geneva)
The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, says it fears intensified fighting in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo could undermine efforts to demobilize child soldiers, and even lead to increased recruitment.
- Coalition Calls for UN Sanctions Against Child Soldiers in Africa ( Nov 17, 2004 Nairobi)
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.
- New Global Report Finds Child Soldiers in Nearly 30 Conflicts ( Nov 17, 2004 London)
Governments are undermining progress in ending the use of children as soldiers. That is the conclusion of a coalition of the world's leading human-rights organizations.
- Global Report: 100,000 Child Soldiers in Africa Alone ( Nov 17, 2004 Washington)
A new report says there are more than 100,000 child soldiers in Africa alone. And despite an international treaty guaranteeing the rights of the child, the situation has improved little since a similar report was released three years ago.
- Rights Group Charges Sri Lanka Rebels Continue to Use Child Soldiers ( Nov 11, 2004 New Delhi)
The international rights group, Human Rights Watch, says Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels are still recruiting child soldiers, despite a ceasefire with the government.
- UN Repatriating Child Soldiers in West Africa ( Sep 2, 2004 Abidjan)
The United Nations says it is trying to repatriate hundreds of child soldiers who had been recruited from around West Africa to fight in Liberia's civil war.
- Amnesty International Calls on Burundi to Stop Recruiting Child Soldiers (Mar 25, 2004 Nairobi)
The human rights organization Amnesty International is calling for Burundi's government and rebel groups to stop recruiting and using child soldiers.
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