Africa Americas Asia Europe/Central Asia Middle East/N. Africa United States Arms Children's Rights Women's Rights Refugees International Justice Prisons More... Ive seen people get their hands cut off, a ten-year-old girl raped and then die, and so many men and women burned alive... So many times I just cried inside my heart because I didnt dare cry out loud. - fourteen-year-old girl, abducted ...

The United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF works for the survival, development and protection of children, guided in its programmes by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Operation S.I.C.K. is an independent network of students combatting the exploitation of children for armed conflict. We condemn any political group that recruits and incites children to hate and kill for political purposes, and view it as a flagrant violation of their basic human rights.

Africa Americas Asia Europe/Central Asia Middle East/N. Africa United States Arms Children's Rights HIV/AIDS International Justice Prisons Refugees Women's Rights More... May 2001 Vol. 13, No. 3 (A) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO RELUCTANT RECRUITS: CHILDREN AND ADULTS FORCIBLY RECRUITED FOR MILITARY SERVICE IN NORTH KIVU Printer Friendly Version: PDF 19 pages Acknowledgements SUMMARY ...

The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) is a network of child rights organizations that work to improve the lives of children. Effective information exchange and regional information is facilitated through CRIN's website, email and newsletter service.

Employment Back to Publications Index ILO Action Programme on Skills and Entrepreneurship Training for Countries Emerging from Armed Conflict The reintegration of war-affected youth The experience of Mozambique Stuart Maslen ISBN 92-2-110755-8 First published 1997 Abstract Click here to download the document in WordPerfect (.w61) Training Policies and Systems Branch Employment and Training ...

The fate of children caught up in the turmoil of conflict is one of the most unbearable and saddest aspects of modern-day armed conflict and its direct consequences.

SPECIAL CONCERNS CHILD SOLDIERS: AN AFFRONT TO HUMANITY CHILDREN IN FLIGHT: REFUGEE AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED CHILDREN GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: A WEAPON OF WAR THE DEVASTATION OF LANDMINES AND UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE ADOLESCENTS: A NEGLECTED GROUP Back to Contents Children need be the victims of war only if there is no will to prevent it. Experiences in dozens of conflicts confirm that extraordinary ...