child soldiers
'The Terminator' Was Just Handed the Biggest Sentence Ever for Sexual Slavery and War Crimes
The brutal warlord Bosco Ntaganda is the first person the International Criminal Court has ever convicted of sexual slavery and sexual violence against his own troops.
Congo's instability is fueling grave violations against children, and driving them to armed groups
“I thought about death. I thought about my family having no idea where I was. I thought I was going to be killed.”
Children are being kidnapped to fight in the Central African Republic’s brutal war
"Whoever refuses to fight is killed," one child soldier said.
This Activist Uses Surfing Therapy to Rehabilitate Child Soldiers
Based in war-torn Mogadishu, the initiative uses the ocean and riding waves to help communities ravaged by years of violence and suffering.
Donald Trump's highly abnormal presidency: the week of Nov. 20
Trump has been locked in an escalating war of words with Ball – a brash, self-promoting businessman – since Ball’s middle son, LiAngelo Ball, was released with two of his UCLA teammates from a Chinese jail earlier this month.
The VICE News Guide to the World — Week of September 4
This year’s outbreak was more deadly than almost every previous outbreak combined.
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Talking with a Child Soldier and the Young Man He Refused to Kill
He was 13 and meant to kill him. Instead, they escaped and later reunited in Canada.
The VICE Morning Bulletin
Trump to be inaugurated as president, Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo extradited to the US, Kanye West gets another college course, and more.
In Congo, Teen Girls Who Can't Afford School Are Joining Armed Groups
The charity Child Soldiers International warns that young girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo are joining militias—and are doing so of their own volition.
How Two American Teens Became Assassins for a Mexican Cartel
'Wolf Boys,' a new book by Dan Slater, details the bloody rise and fall of two Texas teenagers who became contract killers for the Zetas, the most violent drug cartel in Mexico, killing dozens of people in the process.
This Former Colombian Child Soldier Was Forced to Kill Eight of His Friends
Nicolás spent his adolescence as a soldier in Colombia's FARC rebel forces. As a peace accord nears, his story provides a glimpse of the deep scars left by the country's half-century-long conflict.
