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DDR programmes usually have a number of components including a focus on psycho-social care, the return of ex-child soldiers to education, job training, and supporting local initiatives, usually through various regional partnerships). Such programmes usually aim for children to either go back to their families or be placed with foster families. [4]
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War. Toronto: Kids Can Press ISBN 978-1-77138-126-0; International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) & The Global Center on Cooperative Security (September 2017). "Correcting the Course: Juvenile Justice Principles for Children Convicted of Violent Extremism Offenses", ICCT & GCCS, 1–12.
The National Resistance Army also made use of child soldiers. [58] Between 2003 and 2007, non-state armed groups fighting the LRA also used children. [59] In 2007 the Ugandan government agreed an action plan with the UN to end the use of child soldiers and in 2008 the country no longer appeared on the UN list of countries that recruit and use ...
Roughly 100.000-140.000 child soldiers in Sierra Leone fought between 1991 and 2002 in the Sierra Leone Civil War.Children fought on both sides of the conflict. Nearly half of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), and a quarter of the government armed forces consisted of children aged 8–14 years old.
A number of child soldiers served in the Soviet Union's armed forces during World War II. In some cases, orphans also unofficially joined the Soviet Red Army . Such children were affectionately known as "sons of the regiment" ( Russian : сын полка ) and sometimes willingly performed military missions such as reconnaissance.
Child soldiers in Uganda are members of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that has been abducting young people since 1987 to fill out their ranks. Children and youth (both boys and girls) are usually abducted from their homes, [ 1 ] often with one or more others, and in characteristically violent ways.
Their goal is to counsel and rehabilitate female ex-child soldiers and help them reunite with their communities and have a chance at a better future. [ 17 ] Most notably, in 2009, Akallo started a non-profit organization in America called United Africans for Women and Children's Rights (UAWCR) that aims to protect the rights of African women ...
In 2016, fifteen veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces were chosen to train workers in war zones in how to safely defuse confrontations with child soldiers. In 2019, the Institute worked with the Canadian Armed Forces to create a Center of Excellence at the Canadian Defence Academy , called the Dallaire Centre of Excellence for Peace and ...