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	<title>Child Soldier Relief &#187; United Nations</title>
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		<title>UN appeals to LTTE to release children</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, said in a press release on January 21, 2009 that the LTTE (Tamil Tigers from Sri Lanka) needs to immediately release children held in its ranks, “stress(ing) that both authorities and humanitarian partners should prepare to separate these children and reintegrate them back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children forced to plant bombs in Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report, released recently from the United Nations, cited grave children rights violations – including child soldier recruitment – being committed by all fighting forces in Somalia, including the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), and Al-Shabaab (designated a terrorist organization by U.S. Dept of State in March). From UN.org. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uganda’s LRA still has child soldiers in their ranks, UN says</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is estimated that more than 25,000 children have been kidnapped and forced to fight in some capacity in the decades-old conflict in Uganda (started in the early 1980s). Joseph Kony, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has denied accusations that his army has recruited and kidnapped children. And while UN chief Ban Ki-moon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>91 child soldiers found fighting with the JEM in Sudan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inner City Press referred yesterday to the group of 91 children that were discovered fighting with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) – a rebel group fighting in the Darfur region of the Sudan – on May 10th of this year. From this article, UN’s Radhika Coomaraswamy states: …the JEM is on the list of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Possible violations by the United States in supporting Somali military</title>
		<link>http://www.childsoldierrelief.org/region/africa/possible-violations-by-the-united-states-in-supporting-somali-military-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childsoldierrelief.org/region/africa/possible-violations-by-the-united-states-in-supporting-somali-military-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia has been accused by the United Nations in the annual report of the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict of being one of the “most persistent violators” of using child soldiers. As a result of their ongoing support of the Somali Transitional Government &#8211; as a [...]]]></description>
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