Child Soldiers

Deradicalizing boys in Pakistan

25 May 2012

Pakistan's Saboon organization is working to reintegrate child soldiers trained to be suicide bombers back into society. 

Psychosocial problems of Child Soldiers

23 May 2012

In war and violent conflict, children are traumatized by such common experiences as frequent shelling, bombing, helicopter strafing, round-ups, cordon-off and search operations, deaths, injury, destruction, mass arrests, detention, shootings, grenade explosions and landmines.

Report: Congo Mutiny Using Child Soldiers

16 May 2012

NAIROBI -- Human Rights Watch says a renegade general is forcibly recruiting child soldiers to support his mutiny in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. HRW's new report says at least 149 boys and young men between the ages of 12 and 20 have been forcibly recruited to fight alongside soldiers loyal to Bosco Ntaganda, a former rebel leader who is already wanted by the International ...