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According to the United Nations the Syrian opposition fighting President Bashar al Assad's government forces are believed to be using child soldiers.
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Ethnic cleansing in Sudan has many faces --- the "Arab-African conflict," "the Darfur problem," and the "North-South conflict." The longest running conflict in Africa, its tribal differences and oil related conflicts have compounded Sudan's problems.
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Several human rights groups and United Nations officials say that child soldiers are being used by the government of Somalia to fight against Islamist militants. The report finds that the average United States taxpayer is helping fund this strategy.
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The United Nations reports that young girls recruited to be soldiers by both rebel and national troops in the Congo are less likely to be freed.
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Nearly 400 former child soldiers were on Thursday released from a detention camp in Nepal, the first of some 3,000 former child soldiers with the communist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who will eventually return to civilian life.
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Around the world children are suffering from direct consequences of war. They find themselves alone and vulnerable without their families or being directly recruited as a child soldier.
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Thomas Lubanga is a former Congolese rebel leader who has pleaded not guilty to charges of using child soldiers to fight bloody ethnic battles.
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According to the new Secretary General’s annual report on Children and Armed Conflict, the number of armed groups and forces identified as using children has climbed from 40 in 2006 to 57 in 2007.
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Children in the North America play war related video games. Elsewhere in the world children know those games all too well. They are forced onto the battlefield. Children as young as six have been recruited into wars in the modern world.
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Warlords are forcing children in conflicts around the world to become killing machines or nothing more than "cannon fodder."
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Jacob Acaye, the former child soldier featured in the “Kony 2012″ viral sensation, told ABC News today that although attention from the film was overwhelming, his life was good now and it was important for people to see the video. “It’s a hard movie,” he...
Joseph Kony becomes unlikely Internet trend in campaign to stop child soldiers.
 War Witch was greeted with warm applause on Friday at the Berlin Film Festival, where it was the first Canadian film to screen in competition at the German festival in 12 years.
A child and two soldiers are killed in a bomb attack in eastern Colombia which officials blame on the largest left-wing rebel group, the Farc.
The International Criminal Court is set to deliver its first ever verdict, in the case of DR Congo's Thomas Lubanga. accused of using child soldiers.
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A group of demobilized child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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