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According to them, up to 118 districts in India are facing armed insurrection and that child soldiers were used by both sides in these conflicts. [5] Human rights watch has also accused the Indian security forces of using children as spies and messengers, [failed verification] although the Indian government denies this allegation. [6]
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 ...
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The war has escalated so the child soldiers now go after family members and friends,” he says. In September alone, there have been dozens of incidents. A 13-year-old boy was found executed in ...
Authorities say violence in the region has reduced significantly since 2019, when the Indian government stripped Kashmir of semi AP PHOTOS: Indian soldiers drill for counterinsurgency amid rise in ...
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 U.N.'s report "No Place for Children" said more than 8 million children in Syria and neighboring countries needed humanitarian assistance.
Over 250,000 red hands were collected from youths of 101 countries around the world and presented to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a book at 5 pm on February 12, 2009, in New York City by former child-soldiers from Colombia and Côte d'Ivoire accompanied by young activists from Germany. Ban said it was an impressive effort, and the UN is ...