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Unable to cope up with the acute shortage of food, increasing number of families in the northeastern region of Uganda are selling their children in exchange for money to the cattle traders.
These unfortunate children are forced to do manual jobs...
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International Criminal Court (ICC) will once again fail to deliver justice to gross Child rights and Human rights violation cases in Congo. Armed wing of UPC (Union of...
made popular Jun 23 2008
Burma has been named as the most persistent user of child soldiers, with thousands in its armed forces - some as young as 11, Human Rights Watch says.
made popular May 21 2008
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The number of conflicts in which child soldiers were involved dropped sharply from 27 in 2004 to 17 at the end of last year, according to a report by the Coalition to...
made popular May 21 2008
The situation for children caught in conflict remains “grave and entirely unacceptable” because 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child...
made popular Feb 14 2008
The military junta ruled neighboring country of India, currently under crisis due to pro-democracy demonstrations is reportedly using all methods to recruit soldiers...
made popular Oct 31 2007
Africa has made leaps towards the ideals of progress and advancement, but it’s not a secret that a lot of distance is yet to be covered. Much of Africa remain...
made popular Sep 27 2007
Continuous fight among DRC government troops and local Hutu and Tutsi militias in Congo deserves as much international attention as the condition of civilian is...
made popular Sep 20 2007
Globally efforts are being made to prevent the recruitment of child soldiers by the rebel powers. In this context, in the month of February, nearly 58 nations across...
made popular Aug 11 2007
An analysis conducted by the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that children in those countries who were forced to fighting wars are more vulnerable...
made popular Aug 6 2007
Children who are conscripted in the army would now taste the glimpse of homely atmosphere. According to authorities of the UN, radical leaders in the Central African...
made popular May 19 2007
While world attention has focused on child soldiers in Africa, industrialized countries also recruit teens under 18-a violation of the spirit if not the letter of...
made popular May 8 2007
After a brief cease-fire that was declared in 2001, brought an end to the fighting between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for a while...
made popular Dec 19 2006
Schoolgirls smiling, a rare picture hard to miss
Walking bare-foot on the hard stones of life...but Alas life is a struggle and they have to take responsibilities of...
made popular Sep 22 2006
Despite a high-level committee set up by the Myanmar government to crack down the recruitment of child soldiers by the armed forces, not much progress seems to be...
made popular Sep 20 2006
Once again, the life of Sudanese Children is being turned into a living nightmare as more and more Armed Groups are abducting them every year. The situation is getting...
made popular Aug 23 2006
More than 5,000 child soldiers are said to be held by the LTTE leaders in the combat groups. A tip from the human rights group says that the rebel groups are...
made popular Aug 14 2006
Children in Democratic Republic of Congo are facing one hurdle after the other. First, they were the victim of the diamond trade and witchcraft abuse and no sooner, the...
made popular Jul 31 2006
According to a senior official of the United Nations, more than 250,000 child soldiers all over the world are trapped in the conflicting ongoing wars. Girl soldiers are...
made popular Jul 26 2006
Highly creative deminers employ 1000 people and shift round about 3000 devices a month, Aki Ra, short time ago unfurnished his 50,000th land mine. Aki Ra is the same...
made popular Jul 14 2006
Recruitment of child soldiers is spreading in third world countries like wildfire and this is crippling most of the communities in the notorious lawless land of the...
made popular Jul 5 2006
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Since two decades, the rebel group, Lords Resistance Army (LRA) have been terrorizing the entire territory of the Northern Uganda.
More than 20,000 children are...
made popular Jul 1 2006
Uganda and DR Congo fall among the blacklisted countries for child soldiers, but according to close sources, the government is taking a strong stand to stop the...
made popular Jun 30 2006
Thousand of children have gone missing since the war broke out between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the government in the northern region of Uganda.
In...
made popular Jun 10 2006
A research conducted by the Special Needs Education programme in 63 primary schools at Uganda revealed that there are 1,327 physically challenged students, who are not...
made popular Jun 7 2006
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