UNICEF estimates that since 2013, some 19,000 children associated with armed groups in the Central African Republic have been ...

Photographer Cedric Gerbehaye documents a transit center in Ituri District, where the UN and the government of Congo struggle to re-integrate former militia members back into society A boy soldier ...

BOGÓTA, Colombia, April 20 (UNHCR) - Elisa* was born and grew up in a culture of violence, and in the end it left her confined to a wheelchair yet lucky to be alive. But the former child soldier is ...

Colombian soldiers stand in formation as war material seized from a dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is displayed in Cucuta [File: Carlos Eduardo Ramirez/Reuters] ...

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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 ...