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By Kate Davey, Director of Research Projects

On October 14, President Obama announced that he was sending one hundred US troops to Uganda to “provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield.

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 – as a [...]

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. [...]

Child Soldier Relief is creating a three part series on the Charles Taylor Trial; the second report in the series explores Charles Taylor’s use of child soldiers. The Council of Foreign Relations reports that in the late eighties and early nineties Charles Taylor recruited child soldiers into his National Patriotic Front of Liberia movement and [...]

Child Soldier Relief is creating a three part series on the Charles Taylor Trial; the first explores the summary of charges against Charles Taylor concerning child soldiers. Charles Taylor is charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international humanitarian law. According to Count 9 of the Indictment, Taylor is charged [...]

Uma Thurman, star of Kill Bill and other award-winning films, will act as a schoolteacher in a film depicting the struggle of a group of girls who were abducted and forced to serve as sex slaves in Uganda in 1996. The Hollywood beauty will star in the drama based on the 1996 incident which saw [...]

The People’s Army for the Restoration of Democracy (APRD) – since April of this year – has released 166 boys and 16 girls aged between 10 and 17.  The promised release follows a visit by Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict UN Radhika Coomaraswamy and a signed peace agreement where a commitment to [...]

Chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court said last week that “he was looking closely at charges child soldiers have been used by militias in Sudan’s conflict-torn western Darfur region”. UNICEF has regularly reported on the use of child soldiers in Darfur, citing last December that upwards of 6,000 child soldiers “some as young as [...]