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Article: Children of the Drug Trade: A Case Study of Children in Organised Armed Violence in Rio de Janeiro.
- Article from:
- Ploughshares Monitor
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Luke Dowdney. 2003, a publication of Viva Rio. To obtain a copy of this book, contact Viva Rio: vivario@vivario.org.br.
This empirical study is based on field work that investigates child and adolescent involvement in armed confrontations in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro. It sheds light on a problem that belongs not only to Rio but to Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras and Jamaica, South Africa and Nigeria, and possibly many other countries.
Children of the Drug Trade examines the ways in which these children are like child soldiers in other conflicts, and also the ways in which they differ. "[T]he parallels with child soldiers are closer than ...