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Child Soldiers  - http://www.amnestyusa.org/children/soldiers/  AIUSA's campaign for the rights of children under 18 who are serving in the military or who are abducted to help armed opposition groups.  Impact of Armed Conflict on Children: Child Soldiers  - http://www.un.org/rights/concerns.htm#soldiers  Extract from the report of Graca Machel, expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.  Children and War  - http://www.icrc.org/eng/children  International Committee of the Red Cross information on the fate of children caught up in the turmoil of conflict.Includes information on children, war and humanitarian law.  Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers  - http://www.child-soldiers.org/  Nonprofit activist group working to stop the recruitment of children in war.  Human Rights Watch: Stop the Use of Child Soldiers  - http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/  Information and accounts of the use of child soldiers.  Child rights information network: Armed Conflict  - http://www.crin.org/themes/viewTheme.asp?ID=11&name=Armed+conflict  An information base for current news and documents on children in armed conflict including child soldiers.  UNICEF: Impact of Armed Conflict on Children  - http://www.unicef.org/graca/  Full text of and other information surrounding the official report produced by Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.  University of Essex: Children and Armed Conflict Unit  - http://www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/default.htm  Provides up-to-date information, reports and documents on the impact of armed conflicts on children including child soldiers.  Reluctant Recruits: Children and Adults Forcibly Recruited for Military Service in N. Kivu (Congo)  - http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/drc3/  Human Rights Watch report (29 May 2001)points to the continued recruitment of children by the major Congolese rebel group.  Child Soldiers Resources  - http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_soldiers.html  Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide.  Operation: Stop Inciting Children to Kill  - http://www.operationsick.com  Focuses particularly on the use of children in the Middle East conflict.The site consists of reports, factsheets, articles and a petition against the use child combatants.  Radio Netherlands: Child Soldiers of Liberia  - http://www.rnw.nl/en/liberia/index.html  Provides information about the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war (1989-1997).  Government of Canada: Child Soldiers  - http://www.cfp-pec.gc.ca/NationalForum/elementary/english/childSoldiers/  Provides details of the recruitment and use of children in adult wars in a question and answer format.  International Labour Organization:The Reintegration of War-Affected Youth - The Experience of Mozambique  - http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/skills/training/publ/pub13.htm  Publication on skills development and training for war-affected youth after civil war in Mozambique.  Children in Armed Conflict Unit: Child Soldiers  - http://www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/Issues/Future/menu/childsoldiers.htm  Offers a list of international laws and standards, articles, conferences and other information on the global use of child soldiers.  Using Children in Armed Conflict: A Legitimate African Tradition?  - http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No32/Contents.html  A monograph by T.W. Bennett on the history and efforts to criminalise recruitment of child soldiers, from the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa.  You'll Learn Not To Cry: Child Combatants in Colombia  - http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/colombia0903/  More than 11,000 children fight in Colombia's armed conflict, one of the highest totals in the world. Both guerrilla and paramilitary forces rely on child combatants, who have committed atrocities and are even made to execute other children who try to desert.  SOS Children's Villages - Aid Orientated Towards The Future  - http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/cgi-bin/sos/jsp/retrieve.do?lang=en&site=ZZ&nav=5.3&cat=%2F5.3.4_optional_sub_4&ed=27082  Learn about this aid organization offering continuous care to former child soldiers ravaged by war in Uganda.  How to Fight, How to Kill: Child Soldiers in Liberia  - http://hrw.org/reports/2004/liberia0204/  Documents the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war and offers recommendations on reintegrating these children into civil society.  Child Soldier Use 2003  - http://hrw.org/reports/2004/childsoldiers0104/  Documents the deployment of children as combatants, to commit abuses against civilians, as sex slaves, forced labourers, messengers, informants and servants in continuing and newly erupting conflicts.  Child and Young Adult Soldiers  - http://www.ginie.org/ginie-crises-links/childsoldiers/  Provides facts and information on child soldiers including international policy guidelines, methods and practices and relevant worldwide organisations.  Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: Global Report  - http://www.child-soldiers.org/cs/childsoldiers.nsf/Report?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expand=2#2  The most recent and comprehensive study to date on the use of child soldiers globally.  UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict: Child Soldiers  - http://www.un.org/special-rep/children-armed-conflict/English/ChildSoldiers.html  Website of the office of the UN Special Represntative of the Secretary -General for Children in Armed Conflict focusing on child soldiers.  Save the Children: Child Soldier Campaign  - http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk/jsp/resources/details.jsp?id=1468&group=getinvolved&section=campaign&subsection=details&pagelang=en  Provides brief analysis and information on the participation of children in modern day conflicts.  Rädda Barnen: Child War Database  - http://www.rb.se/eng/Programme/Childreninarmed/Childsoldiers/  Save the Children Sweden's documentation centre on child soldiers.  Children in Conflict: Child Soldiers  - http://child-soldier.org  Gives details of projects around the world by SOS Children for child soldiers including current conflicts and a look back with ex-soldiers at past conflicts.  BBC News - Child Soldiers: Children of Conflict  - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconflict/soldier.shtml  Most of the victims are obviously boys. Listen to child soldiers, wounded, lost and working children tell their stories in sound files.  Child Soldiers  - http://www.afsc.org/issues/issue.php?id=315  American Friends Service Committee's web page that provides information, news, and analysis on child soldiers around the world.  The Centre for Defense Information's Children and Armed Conflict Project  - http://www.cdi.org/program/index.cfm?ProgramID=21  Provides information (written and visual) on the global use of child soldiers.