Fighting tragedy of child soldiers

Winnipeg Free Press;  August 30, 2006 ;     565 words ......By Gabrielle Giroday ABOUT 300,000 child soldiers are currently fighting in wartorn countries...range of experts -- including former child soldiers themselves -- to fight the human-rights...humanitarian-aid workers on how to interact with child soldiers once they're in the field. ...

Innocent Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War

Westside Gazette;  May 25, 2006 ;     463 words ...Innocent Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War It's estimated that...conflict. In Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War (Basic Books, August...powerful stories of the lives of child soldiers. For the last seven years, Briggs...

Amnesty USA Veteran's Day Plea: U.S. Should Take Stand Against Use of...

U.S. Newswire;  November 10, 1999 ;     625 words ......political support against the use of child soldiers worldwide. AIUSA, as a founding member of the Campaign to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, is promoting a National Call-In Day...opposition to an international ban on child soldiers and raising the standard age for armed...

Lost are found: child soldiers can reenter, thrive in former...

Science News;  June 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Ishmael Beah knows that former child soldiers in war-ravaged African countries can...are no reliable data on the number of child soldiers. New studies challenge the popular...leading constructive lives. Declaring child soldiers to be 'lost boys' is simply unacceptable...

Casualties of War: Exposing the Plight of Child Soldiers

The Crisis;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Casualties of War: Exposing the Plight of Child Soldiers Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War By Jimmie Briggs (Basic Books...children soldiers. Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War is a concise, powerful expos...

MILITARY NEEDS POLICY ON CHILD SOLDIERS

United Press International;  June 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Military needs policy on child soldiers WASHINGTON, Jun 18, 2002 (United Press...bring attention to the phenomenon of child soldiers, who are fighting and dying in military...and addresses the security aspects of child soldiers relative to U.S. armed forces. Singer...

RIGHTS: GOVERNMENTS FAIL TO ACT ON CHILD SOLDIERS, ACTIVISTS SAY

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Hundreds of thousands of child soldiers are being used in conflicts...children as soldiers," says the 'Child Soldiers Global Report 2004' produced by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, a group of human rights and...

SENS. DURBIN, COBURN BILL TO DENY SAFE HAVEN TO WAR CRIMINALS WHO EXPLOIT...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......would make it a crime to recruit or use child soldiers was sent to the President for his signature...D-IL) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). The Child Soldiers Accountability Act would give the federal...an individual who recruited or used child soldiers under the age of 15. When signed, ...

UNICEF-France calls for demobilizing child soldiers on 40th birthday

Xinhua News Agency;  June 1, 2004 ;     321 words ...UNICEF-France calls for demobilizing child soldiers on 40th birthday PARIS, June 1 (Xinhua...with an urgent call for demobilizing child soldiers and their rehabilitation. More than...director of the UNICEF. The number of child soldiers (those who are under 18 years) all...

ACLU Welcomes Child Soldiers Accountability Act

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 10, 2008 ;     365 words ......pleased with the unanimous passage of the Child Soldiers Accountability Act yesterday by the...criminalizes the recruitment and use of child soldiers and gives the United States the authority...recruiters, enlisters and conscriptors of child soldiers accountable for their abuses," ...

Thousands of child soldiers remain in combat around the world: report

AP Worldstream;  November 17, 2004 ;     349 words ......Dateline: LONDON More than 20,000 child soldiers _ some as young as eight...Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers report. However, the London-bas...also said that about 40,000 child soldiers were removed from active duty...

Sen. Durbin Introduces Child Soldiers Accountability Act

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Durbin, D-Illinois, has introduced the Child Soldiers Accountability Act of 2007 (S. 2135...prohibit the recruitment or use of child soldiers, to designate persons who recruit or use child soldiers as inadmissible aliens, to allow the...

Lack of funds glooms fate of former child soldiers in S. Leone:UNICEF

Xinhua News Agency;  July 22, 2003 ;     272 words ...Lack of funds glooms fate of former child soldiers in S. Leone: UNICEF GENEVA, July 22...reintegration into civilian life of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone was under threat by...fresh attacks in recent months using child soldiers emerged in Sub-Saharan Africa. When...

New push to stop child soldiers; A report released Wednesday shows...

The Christian Science Monitor;  November 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......proprietary tone in his voice: These are my child soldiers. The blithe way in which Alphonso admits...by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, an umbrella grouping of nongovernmental...consensus emerging that the use of child soldiers must be stopped, but the practice on...

BURMA: JUNTA LEADERS AGREE TO STOP RECRUITING CHILD SOLDIERS

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  July 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ......with the U.N. on the issue of using child soldiers to quell ethnic rebellions. "The good...chance to discredit the figure of 70,000 child soldiers that is being bandied about." Opposition...government, including the problem of child soldiers. But while the use of child ...