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UN Security Council to Study Child Soldier Use in Colombia
Child soldiers in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as Farc, a major antigovernment guerrilla group that persistently makes the United Nations' annual "shame list" for using children in...
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A Former Child Soldier Grows Up in Colombia
This 18-year-old is a former child soldier with the Farc guerrillas in Colombia. He defected when he was 16 and is due to receive a $7,500 sum in government reparations. AMY LIEBERMANBOGOTÁ – Jesús...
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Protecting Children’s Rights in Troubled Landscapes
Radhika Coomaraswamy, former UN special envoy for children and armed conflict, left, with Idriss Déby, Chad's president in June 2011. The country has signed an "action plan" to release child...
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A Rerun of History in Eastern Congo Threatens Kinshasa Again
Congolese army soldiers in September 2012 deployed in Kibumba, the last position before entering into the rebel zone of M23. The M23 have since taken Goma, a major city in eastern Congo in North Kivu...
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Notorious African Rebel Lands in International Court Hands
Bosco Ntaganda, whom the United States calls “one of the most notorious and brutal rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” has arrived at the International Criminal Court in The Hague after...
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Congolese Rebel Leader Faces Broad Charges of Sex Crimes
Bosco Ntaganda, a notorious rebel leader in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo for at least a decade, faces broad charges by the International Criminal Court of rape and sexual slavery in his own...
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UN Peacekeepers Heading to the Central African Republic by the Fall
Thousands of Muslims in the Central African Republic who have fled their homes for fear of death by militias have escaped to nations nearby, but many who still remain in the country have found refuge...
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New Protocols and Policies Tackle Sexual Violence in War
Imagery from the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, held in London, June 2014.As Sunni Muslim extremists first seized strategic cities in Iraq last week, and a United Nations spokesman...
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