Children and War

The Guardian, originally published on Monday 1 Mars 2021. By Kaamil Ahmed. ‘There is a huge amount of damage you can’t see – the mental trauma’, says Syria Relief report author. More than three-quarters of […]

Source: Anita McKone (11 March 2011) Dedicated to the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (now Afghan Peace Volunteers) http://ourjourneytosmile.com LISTEN AND LEARN MORE HERE ON SOUNDCLOUD Lyrics: So many fathers are gone, lost to the fighting What can […]

Source: Taylor and Francis Online Abstract This article describes how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international child rights instruments are implicated in the postwar reintegration of child excombatants in […]

  Source : UN Bamiyan, Afghanistan: children make a long journey to continue their education. Photo: UNICEF/Abdul Aziz Froutan 9 January 2017 – Despite attempts to increase food aid in Afghanistan, children bear the brunt […]

As the conflict in the country escalates further, the situation of children affected by grave child rights violations has considerably deteriorated with many children either maimed or killed.

During ten years of civil war, from 1991 to 2002, the children of Sierra Leone were deliberately and routinely targeted, and witnessed widespread and systematic acts of violence and abuse.

This report examines how and to what extent transitional justice approaches have engaged children and considered their needs and perspectives, analyzing the experience of truth-seeking mechanisms, criminal justice, reparations, and institutional reform.

Source: UN Child abuse is continuing in Iraq where disabled children have been used to carry out terrorist attacks in a belief it will cure them, it emerged on Thursday. In a UN report on […]

This is Security Council Report’s sixth Cross-Cutting Report on Children and Armed Conflict, continuing a series that began with the publication of our first report on the subject in 2008.