Research on child soldiers in 1998 revealed that an estimated 300,000 children or more under the age of eighteen were fighting in more than thirty armed conflicts around the world. Although most ...

The loose coalition of fighters carried out extrajudicial killings and forcibly conscripted child soldiers during the brutal second Liberian Civil which lasted from 1999-2003, according to federal ...

“You have good soldiers and bad soldiers. Bad soldiers, when they go ... child soldier Victor. This can help others to avoid making the same mistakes. “They can learn out of my experience ...

And it’s often been children doing the fighting. Thousands have been recruited as child soldiers over the years -- an issue the United Nations called “endemic” in 2013. Balezi Bagunda wants ...

Of the nine defendants being tried by the Special Court for Sierra Leone, all have been charged with the recruitment and use of child soldiers. The first trial expected to go forward under the ICC ...

In the city of Goma, Congolese journalist Ruth Omar looks at how former child soldiers are being rehabilitated using capoeira, the Brazilian martial art. Show more In the city of Goma, Congolese ...