child soldiers
Granting Omar Khadr Bail Is Not Good Enough
It's great that he (might) get bail, but Omar Khadr should never have been imprisoned in the first place.
Islamic State Militants Reportedly Kidnap 120 Children in Mosul
Local sources claim the militant group raided various schools in the northern Iraqi city, reportedly taking them to unidentified child training camps.
Islamic State Promotional Magazine Baits 'Infidels' by Highlighting Child Executioners
The latest issue of the publication is notable for including a two-page spread about boys that IS had previously depicted killing prisoners on video.
Saving Burma’s Child Soldiers
Slowly, soldiers who were forcibly recruited as children are returning to their villages, to families who have long thought them dead.
Slow Response Follows Forced Conscription of Hundreds of Child Soldiers in South Sudan
The Wau Shilluk incident is one of the few large forced recruitment operations to be made public, yet unlike large kidnappings elsewhere in Africa, events in South Sudan have prompted little international outcry.
At Least 89 Boys Reportedly Abducted From School by Armed Group in South Sudan
UNICEF expressed concern that 89 boys reportedly kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a village in South Sudan could be used as child soldiers.
South Sudan's Warring Factions Sign Yet Another Ceasefire in Latest Effort to Stop the Bloodshed
The latest agreement is the conflict's eighth — each of the previous pacts were violated within days or even hours of their signing.
Three Thousand Child Soldiers to Be Set Free by South Sudan Militia
Almost 300 underage fighters were handed over to officials by the South Sudan Democratic Army Cobra Faction, the first phase of a wider release deal.
Growing Up Guantánamo
International juvenile justice standards identify child soldiers first and foremost as victims in need of representation and rehabilitation. Still, a number of adolescents have been held as prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.
VICE News Capsule - Friday, September 26
Burmese military frees 100 child soldiers, Ferguson police chief apologizes to Brown family and more
Saving South Sudan
In February, VICE set out with a former child soldier to locate South Sudan’s former vice president, who has been leading a rebellion.
Meet the Man Who Rescues Child Soldiers
There are more than 6,000 child soldiers in the Central African Republic, including girls held as sex slaves. Souleymane Diatabé saves them.