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- Children at War!"The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight." - Sir Roger Moore
- Support Against Child Soldiers is Huge but DispersedMany people abhor child soldiering. Many speak out against it. But are we speaking with a common voice that can have impact, or are we all on different soapboxes whispering into the wind?
- Organization's Mission to Help Stop Child SoldieringWhat I have learned about the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers.
- The United Nations and the Issue of Child Soldiers in AfricaThe United Nations need to intervene in the issue regarding the use of child soldiers in Africa. This is a plan that the UN should carry out in order to abolish the use of child soldiers.
- Child Soldiers: From Uganda to GuantanamoAn overview of the use of child soldiers around the world citing recent medical evidence that indicates exposure to violence in childhood causes long term brain damage.
International Law to Stop Use of Child SoldiersEliminating the use of child soldiers is a long and tortured process. Over the past century several conventions and efforts have been made to stop their use.- Ahmadou Kourouma's "Allah is Not Obliged":Review of the the ghoulish comedy about a child soldier in West African civil wars, "Allah Is Not Obliged" by Ahmadou Kouroum.
- Child SoldiersIn memory of the child soldiers forced from home,to serve in war.
- What Responsibility Does the World Bear for Rehabilitating Child Soldiers from the Horror of Serving in Armed Conflict?Personally, I do not think the deployment will succeed as Than Shwe will simply repeat history by tightening up his grip if he smells anything fishy against him.
- Child SoldiersChildren fighting all througout Africa trying to support their nation.
- The Lost Children that Fight on Africa's Soil"An estimated 300,000 children under the age of eighteen are currently participating in armed conflicts in more than thirty different countries on nearly every continent. While most child soldiers are in their teens, some are as young as seven years old."
- UN Calls for Release of Child Soldiers in UgandaToday, the United Nations once again called for the unconditional release of the estimated 25,000 children recruited or kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army.
- International Condemnation of Child SoldiersThere are approximately 300,000 children soldiers in the world today. A child soldier can be defined as any child less than 18 years of age who is forcibly or voluntarily recruited in hostilities by armed forces.
War Morals and Humanity: Child Soldiers Growing in AfricaChildren as soldiers is something extremely foreign to us. Many of us would be more than just outraged over the army letting children as young as 13 enter US ranks. Parents of these children would never even think of letting them join either.- Child Soldiers in Sri Lanka, IndonesiaThe media reports on international news shrink the stories covering issues such as child soldiers and the mistreatment of females in foreign countries. The number of child soldiers in Sri Lanka, Indonesia has increased since the Tsunami.
- Why Are We at War in Africa?The LRA's Joseph Kony may be an ugly, brutish, fiend of a man. But he's not the only psychopath worth fighting. So why send 100 U.S. troops to hunt down his terror army across four famously volatile African countries?
Real War Against War Begins by Protecting Our Most Valued Treasure, ChildrenThe image is of blood at the site of an accidental explosion of a missile remaining from the wreckage of Russian tank used in Afghanistan's civil war where children played with it until it exploded. Among seven children, four were killed.
GETTING in the LINE of FIRE Part 1Real life story written by a friend Blamah Moore a former Liberian child soldier. Edited by myself and posted with permission of Mr. Moore.- From Marriage, to Unexpected Pregnancy, to Child Soldiers: My Top 3 Picks for Books that Should Be Made into MoviesA look at three of my favorite books and who should direct and star in the movie versions!
- KIDS in the WAR AFFECTED COUNTRIESThe kids who lose parents, siblings, there is no place to live, watch all the violence - their minds are affected emotionally, physically.
- Child Soldiers in the U.S: Does Anyone Care?The emotional turmoil experience by children who are witness to violent acts.
- A College Student's Literary CanonThe 10 books I think you should read, with a short justification.
Child Soldier, Come HomeA sonnet
