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ADDIS ABABA, May 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Listening to local communities is key to meeting a global goal of ending the use of children by armed groups by 2025, a top United Nations (U.N.) ...

The European Commission, ​the African Union Commission, and ​the United Nations on Thursday called for the immediate release of child soldiers wherever ...

The use of child soldiers is a profound human tragedy that continues to scar generations across the world. According to the United Nations, over the years, thousands of children, some as young as six ...

On the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, we reiterate the importance of protecting children from the ravages of war, as we witness ...

(Adds details of Afghanistan, paragraph 10) By Nick Tattersall DAKAR, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Child soldiers are still being recruited in at least 13 countries from Afghanistan to Uganda, 10 years after ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., United States, June 29 (UNHCR) - Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, recently published his best-selling memoir, "A Long Way Gone." At the age of 12, Beah fled ...

South Sudan’s efforts to end the recruitment of child soldiers appear to be paying off. According to the UN Mission in South Sudan, UNMISS, some children have just been released by the South Sudan ...

"It's the brutal recruitment that is the most heart wrenching," Skye Wheeler, the report's author, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. More than a dozen senior commanders and officials who children ...

Families and communities are central to recovery for Sierra Leone's former child soldiers, Boston College researchers find in 15-year study of war-affected youth, the first to follow child soldiers ...

BANDAJUMA, Sierra Leone (UNHCR) - At an age when they should be playing basketball with the other kids, two teenaged boys have chosen to sit it out on the bench, staring blankly ahead with troubled ...