In some countries, former child soldiers have access to rehabilitation programs to help them locate their families, get back into school, receive vocational training, and re-enter civilian life.

Today, child soldiers are fighting in at least 14 countries, including Colombia, Myanmar (also known as Burma) and Afghanistan. In most of these cases, there have been no arrest warrants, ...

And the soldiers are children. With 500 homicides so far this year, ... According to police department statistics, 85 percent of Chicago’s murders last year were gang related.

Reporting on the use of child soldiers tends to focus on the plight of young boys forced to join the ranks of adult male fighters. Meanwhile, the experience of girls associated with armed forces ...

On January 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of State published a list of 17 countries that recruit or use child soldiers. The list includes Afghanistan, Burma, Cameroon, the Central African Republic ...

Underage soldiers are an example of child labor at its worst ("Child Soldiers Used Widely, Report Finds," June 13).

Child Soldiers The United States is under pressure to send American peacekeepers to Liberia. If that happens, one of the challenges they'll face is how to deal with the thousands of Liberian ...

Many of these children have fought against peacekeeping troops in Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo and US-led coalition soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.

The treaty brought about important change, prompting some violating governments to demobilize child soldiers, prosecute officers that recruited children, or change their deployment practices.But ...

In Mozambique, an Islamist group operating used children in attacks on a town last week. Human Rights Watch reported residents who fled recognized some boys as their missing relatives.