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Fifty-eight groups in 13 countries are still recruiting and using child soldiers. Despite a 2005 U.N. resolution, international protocols on child soldiers, increased monitoring and reporting [...]

Malian child soldiers are fighting in the country's conflict, journalists on the ground have reported. While French troops have boasted of the successful retaking of [...]

In June last year, Myanmar's new reformist government signed an agreement with the UN pledging to prevent the use of child soldiers and allow access to military units to check for underage [...]

(WNN/HRW) Nairobi, KENYA, AFRICA: Islamist armed groups occupying northern Mali should immediately release all child soldiers within their ranks and end the military conscription and use ofthose [...]