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CHILD SOLDIERS: Who's recruited where?
27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Source: AlertNet
A child soldier carrying a machine gun patrols an ethnic Hema militia camp near Bunia in the Democratic Republic of Congo. June 2003.
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A child soldier carrying a machine gun patrols an ethnic Hema militia camp near Bunia in the Democratic Republic of Congo. June 2003.
JACKY NAEGELEN
LONDON (AlertNet) - Child soldiers are an often forgotten part of war. Precise figures are extremely hard to come by but the United Nations estimates that 300,000 boys and girls – some as young as nine years old – are currently used by rebel groups and government forces as fighters, sexual slaves, spies, messengers and porters. They are on the frontline of more than 20 conflicts around the world.

Click on the continents below to find out about child soldiers in conflicts around the world. The descriptions are based on the Child Soldiers Global Report 2004 by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. The next report is due to be published in 2008.

  • Americas and Europe
  • South Asia
  • South East Asia
  • Central Asia
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • West Africa
  • Central Africa
  • East and Southern Africa

    See also:

  • FACTSHEET: Child soldiers on the frontline

  • Read first-hand accounts from child soldiers: Human Rights Watch and Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

    Useful links:

    Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

    Human Rights Watch page on Child Soldiers

    United Nations Children’s Fund factsheet on child soldiers

    United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict


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