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, ...

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.

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.

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 in Colombia, a quarter of which are girls, are often forced to commit appalling human right violations. Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ...

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 ...

Child soldiers are killing and dying in Colombia, Chechnya and Kosovo, in the Middle East and in Asia. More than anywhere else, they are fighting in Africa and Sri Lanka, where the Liberation ...

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 ...

OPINION | The United States should lead the world in the fight against all forms of human trafficking, not effectively looking the other way as some foreign militaries prey on children.