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- Child and Young Adult Soldiers - Provides facts and information on child soldiers including international policy guidelines, methods and practices and relevant worldwide organisations.
ginie1.sched.pitt.edu/ginie-crises-links/childsoldiers
- Child of War - A quarterly newsletter campaigning against the use of child soldiers; from Radda Barnen, Swedish Save the Children organization.
www.rb.se/chilwar
- Child rights information network: Armed Conflict - An information base for current news and documents on children in armed conflict including child soldiers.
www.crin.org/themes/viewTheme.asp?ID=11&name=Armed+conflict
- Child Soldiers - AIUSA's campaign for the rights of children under 18 who are serving in the military or who are abducted to help armed opposition groups.
www.amnestyusa.org/children/soldiers
- Child Soldiers Resources - Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide.
www.vachss.com/help_text/child_soldiers.html
- Children and War - International Committee of the Red Cross information on the fate of children caught up in the turmoil of conflict.Includes information on children, war and humanitarian law.
www.icrc.org/eng/children
- Children in Armed Conflict Unit: Child Soldiers - Offers a list of international laws and standards, articles, conferences and other information on the global use of child soldiers.
www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/Issues/Future/menu/childsoldiers.htm
- Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers - Nonprofit activist group working to stop the recruitment of children in war.
www.child-soldiers.org/index.html
- Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: Global Report 2001 - The most recent and comprehensive study (released June 12th 2001)to date on the use of child soldiers globally.
www.child-soldiers.org/embargo/donotpublish/globalreport.html
- Democratic Republic of Congo's Human Rights Ministry: Child Soldiers - Description of the position and work of the DRC government against the use of child soldiers.
www.demobilization.org
- Global March Against Child Labour: Child Soldiers - Recommends relevant publications, provides articles and information about child soldiers.
www.globalmarch.org/childsoldier/index1.html
- Government of Canada: Child Soldiers - Provides details of the recruitment and use of children in adult wars in a question and answer format.
www.cfp-pec.gc.ca/NationalForum/elementary/english/childSoldiers
- Human Rights Watch: Stop the Use of Child Soldiers - Information and accounts of the use of child soldiers.
www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp
- Impact of Armed Conflict on Children:Child Soldiers - Extract from the report of Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary-Geneal of the UN
www.un.org/rights/concerns.htm#soldiers
- Institute of Security Studies: InterACT Project - Provides information about InterACT's new research initiative which is entitled the Implementation of practical actions to reduce and stop the practice of using children in Armed Conflict in Africa'.
www.iss.co.za/projects/pmpweb/act.html
- International Federation Terre des Hommes: The Lost Childhood - Brief description of the global use of children in war and the activities of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers.
www.terredeshommes.org/en/activities/thema3.asp
- International Labour Organization:The Reintegration of War-Affected Youth - The Experience of Mozambique - Publication on skills development and training for war-affected youth after civil war in Mozambique.
www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/skills/training/publ/pub13.htm
- Oneworld: Children and War - Information and documentation from various organisations on war-affected children including child soldiers.
www.oneworld.org/child_rights/ch_war.html
- Operation: Stop Inciting Children to Kill - Focuses particularly on the use of children in the Middle East conflict.The site consists of reports, factsheets, artciles and a petition against the use child combatants.
www.operationsick.com
- Radda Barnen: Child War Database - Save the Children Sweden's Documentation Centre on child soldiers
www.rb.se/childwardatabase
- Radio Netherlands: Child Soldiers of Liberia - Provides information about the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war (1989-1997).
www.rnw.nl/en/liberia/index.html
- Reluctant Recruits: Children and Adults Forcibly Recruited for Military Service in N. Kivu (Congo) - Human Rights Watch report (29 May 2001)points to the continued recruitment of children by the major Congolese rebel group.
www.hrw.org/reports/2001/drc3
- Save the Children: Child Soldier Campaign - Provides brief analysis and information on the participation of children in modern day conflicts.
www.savethechildren.org.uk/campaigns/globalview/soldiers.html
- The Centre for Defense Information's Children and Armed Conflict Project - Provides information (written and visual) on the global use of child soldiers.
www.cdi.org/atp/childsoldiers
- UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict: Child Soldiers - Website of the office of the UN Special Represntative of the Secretary -General for Children in Armed Conflict focusing on child soldiers.
www.un.org/special-rep/children-armed-conflict/fsoldiers.htm
- UNICEF: Impact of Armed Conflict on Children - Full text of and other information surrounding the official report produced by Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.
www.unicef.org/graca
- University of Essex: Children and Armed Conflict Unit - Provides up-to-date information, reports and documents on the impact of armed conflicts on children including child soldiers.
www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/default.htm
- Y&M Online: Child Soldiers - American Friends Service Committee's website providing information, news, and analysis on child soldiers around the world.
www.afsc.org/youthmil/childsoldiers
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