Child soldiers

Some of them were former child soldiers from the Congolese militia.

Most of the child soldiers were used as porters, cooks and scouts.

Further, the root causes of the phenomenon of child soldiers and the incentives for recruitment must be addressed and countered.

Around 8,000 child soldiers are expected to participate in the programme, according to UNICEF.

Hundreds of thousands of child soldiers are currently serving in armed forces throughout the world.

And she rescued over 150 child soldiers.

A stop must be put to the recruitment of child soldiers.

These child soldiers must carry out all types of tasks.

(j) Not to use or recruit children under the age of 18 as soldiers, encourages the continuation of the process of demobilization of child soldiers currently being undertaken by the United Nations Children's Fund, with the cooperation of the Sudan People's Liberation Army Movement, and urges both parties to the conflict not to use or recruit children under the age of 18 as soldiers and to refrain from the practice of forced conscription

There was also concern expressed about how child soldiers were being vaccinated, and more importantly how to prevent them from being recruited in the first place.

The key groups would include professional soldiers who have fought on the side of non State actors rebel or mercenary soldiers and child soldiers.

Other armed groups continue to incorporate children.

(i) Not to use or recruit children under the age of eighteen as soldiers, and urges the Sudan People's Liberation Army Movement not to use or recruit children under the age of eighteen as soldiers and to refrain from the practice of forced conscription

According to UNICEF, 81 per cent of demobilized children have been reintegrated into their biological families.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) programmes build capacity in the protection of children and the elimination of the use of children as soldiers.

22. Deplores the recruitment of children as soldiers, in particular children belonging to ethnic minorities, and strongly urges the Government of Myanmar and all other parties to the hostilities in Myanmar to end the use of children as soldiers

(e) To put an immediate end to the recruitment and use of child soldiers and to extend full cooperation to relevant international organizations in order to ensure the demobilization of child soldiers, their return home and their rehabilitation

Special attention should be given to the problem of the reintegration of child soldiers.

18. Deplores the recruitment of children as soldiers, in particular children belonging to ethnic minorities, and strongly urges the Government of Myanmar and all other parties to the hostilities in Myanmar to end the use of children as soldiers

This bleak picture, which is far from being exhaustive, shows us to what extent the scourge of child soldiers is a permanent threat to our societies and a serious violation of the rights of children by those who are recruiting them.

I can affirm that Niger has not experienced the phenomenon of child soldiers.

Demands the immediate demobilization and disarmament, reintegration and, where applicable, repatriation of all child soldiers, particularly girls, who have been recruited or used in armed conflicts

(j) The abduction of women and children by tribal groups and other militias

(i) To put an immediate end to the recruitment and use of child soldiers and to extend full cooperation to relevant international organizations in order to ensure the demobilization of child soldiers, their return home and their rehabilitation in accordance with recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child See CRC C 15 Add.237.

We need only look at the outrageous phenomenon of child soldiers.

It was estimated that at least three hundred thousand child soldiers were participating in armed conflicts all over the world.

At every single refugee camp, she has to face off soldiers who want to take my elder brother Mark, who was nine, and make him a boy soldier.

The first phase, which ended in September 2004, saw the demobilization of 2,300 children.

In addition to all those problems, an even more repellent phenomenon has emerged that of child soldiers boys and girls under age 18 who are estimated to number more than 300,000 and who are embroiled in more than 30 conflicts throughout the world, and particularly in West Africa.

Demands the immediate demobilization and disarmament, reintegration and, where applicable, repatriation of all child soldiers, particularly girls, who have been recruited or used in armed conflicts in contravention of international law

In emergencies, immediate protection efforts continue to focus on unaccompanied and separated children, and where necessary on child soldiers, in line with the CCCs.

UNICEF is particularly concerned about the significant correlation between the abduction and forced recruitment of girls and their widespread and systematic sexual exploitation and abuse.

We should increase resources for the social reintegration of child soldiers, because, as is the case in numerous countries of the Great Lakes region, the lack of assistance programmes results in child soldiers becoming involved in organized crime.

Most often, it is not possible to make a distinction between a forced and a voluntary child soldier.

(p) The demobilization and repatriation of more than 3,500 child soldiers in close cooperation between the Sudan People's Liberation Army Movement and the United Nations Children's Fund

A demobilization and reintegration programme led by UNICEF has seen a total of 4,756 child soldiers demobilized since the beginning of 2004.

Often enlisted by force, equipped with sophisticated and deadly weapons and supplied with intoxicating substances, which make them even more dependent on their group, child soldiers become human bombs, who are a danger both to themselves and to others.

Some 8,500 former child soldiers, war affected children and young people enrolled in reintegration programmes in Afghanistan.

Children, especially those from 14 to 17 years old, have been recruited and trained as soldiers during the war by different factions.

That can only be realized if children can be saved from forceful abduction by terrorists to become child soldiers.

Another speaker asked about the UNICEF programme on the demobilization, disarmament and reintegration of child soldiers.

The list of armed groups that recruit child soldiers has not become smaller since last year.

Some 55 per cent of child prisoners were arrested for throwing stones at Israeli soldiers.

War and militarism have profound adverse consequences on women and children.