Whether as soldiers, suicide bombers or human shields, children are an increasingly common sight on the battlefield.
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Child victims are used to justify the cause, while young soldiers further it.
Even ‘madmen’ have their motives for fighting.
A young boy is strapped with explosives and sent to detonate himself and those around him at a school. An expert on terrorism explains how and why children become embroiled in militant conflicts.
Abduction, sexual violence, early marriage: a few of the choices facing adolescent girls who ought instead to be in school.
On the morning of September 24 2014, 15-year-old Yusra Hussien left for school near her home in Easton, Bristol. She then disappeared. News reports surfaced a few days later that Yusra and a 17-year-old…
The government of the Central African Republic claims to be in talks with one of the world’s most enigmatic African guerrilla leaders, Joseph Kony. But Kony has entered talks before with no intention of…
The commander of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Rwanda during the terrible conflict in the early 1990s has put forward legislation in Canada to help former child soldiers seek refuge there. During…
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