Archives

GENEVA - The UN children's agency (UNICEF) says it has received credible reports that armed groups in northern Mali are increasingly recruiting child soldiers, which would violate international [...]

The Maoists are recruiting and indoctrinating children and had constituted children's squads and associations as part of mass mobilization, a UN report said. See all stories on this topic »

Despite assurances from Burma's ruling party that it is cleaning up its act in a bid to see Western sanctions lifted, recruitment of child soldiers remains rampant. See all stories on this topic »

Militias loyal to the former president of the Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo are recruiting child soldiers in Liberia to launch cross-border raids on the Ivory [...]