On December 31, 2024, the United Nations warned that armed groups have increased recruitment and use of children for armed ...
In the city of Goma, former child soldiers are being rehabilitated using capoeira, the Brazilian martial art. Journalist Ruth ...
Former child soldiers of rebel groups operating in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [Mark Oloo, Standard] Ms Furaha Penina, 23, shook with fury at the mere mention of rebel groups ...
Thirty-five years after a United Nations (UN) commitment – by way of a convention – to protect children from being recruited ...
The first trial expected to go forward under the ICC is against Thomas Lubanga, a commander from the DRC, whose only charge against him is the recruitment and use of child soldiers. The “Paris ...
Following his April 2024 visit, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned of increasing human rights violations and called for ...
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Keeping the spotlight on Africa’s child soldiersA 2021 United Nations (UN) report highlighted West and Central Africa as the regions with the highest verified child soldier ...
the Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in armed conflict. And it’s often been children doing the fighting. Thousands have been recruited as child soldiers over the years -- an issue the ...
despite numerous public pledges by the government to desist from the use of child soldiers. In August 1998 a rebel uprising against the Kabila government in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
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