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.

He was 13 and meant to kill him. Instead, they escaped and later reunited in Canada.

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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.

'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.

These ex-soldiers who have seen war want young people to know its true horrors to stop them signing up.

While nearly 40 percent of Canadians see Khadr as a child soldier, about one in four still consider him a terrorist.

Slowly, soldiers who were forcibly recruited as children are returning to their villages, to families who have long thought them dead.

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.

Child soldiers in Syria are involved in shelling, airstrikes, and sniping. They’ve also been subject to arbitrary arrest, torture and rape, as reported by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria. VICE met one of these child soldiers, 11-year...

And does seeking out Invisible Children's faults make me a cynical snob?

I visited an Immigrant Removal Center to meet Jerry, a man who fled his home in dangerous Zimbabwe for England, only to get locked up in a UK detention center for four years.