Web Directory

» BBC News - Child Soldiers: Children of Conflict
   Most of the victims are obviously boys. Listen to child soldiers, wounded, lost and working children tell their stories in sound files.
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconflict/soldier.shtml

» Child Soldier Use 2003
   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.
   http://hrw.org/reports/2004/childsoldiers0104/

» Child 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.
   http://www.amnestyusa.org/Children/Child_Soldiers/page.do?id=1051047&n1=3&n2=78&n3=1270

» Child Soldiers Resources
   Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide.
   http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_soldiers.html

» Child rights information network: Armed Conflict
   An information base for current news and documents on children in armed conflict including child soldiers.
   http://www.crin.org/themes/viewTheme.asp?ID=11&name=Armed+conflict

» Children and War
   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.
   http://www.icrc.org/eng/children

» Children in Armed Conflict Unit: Child Soldiers
   Offers a list of international laws and standards, articles, conferences and other information on the global use of child soldiers.
   http://www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/Issues/Future/menu/childsoldiers.htm

» Children in Conflict: Child Soldiers
   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.
   http://child-soldier.org

» Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
   Nonprofit activist group working to stop the recruitment of children in war.
   http://www.child-soldiers.org/

» Impact of Armed Conflict on Children: Child Soldiers
   Extract from the report of Graca Machel, expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.
   http://www.un.org/rights/concerns.htm#soldiers

» Reluctant Recruits: Children and Adults Forcibly Recruited for Military Service in N. Kivu (Congo)
   Human Rights Watch report (29 May 2001)points to the continued recruitment of children by the major Congolese rebel group.
   http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/drc3/

» The Centre for Defense Information's Children and Armed Conflict Project
   Provides information (written and visual) on the global use of child soldiers.
   http://www.cdi.org/program/index.cfm?ProgramID=21

» UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict: Child Soldiers
   Website of the office of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary -General for Children in Armed Conflict focusing on child soldiers.
   http://www.un.org/special-rep/children-armed-conflict/English/ChildSoldiers.html

» UNICEF: Impact of Armed Conflict on Children
   Full text of and other information surrounding the official report produced by Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.
   http://www.unicef.org/graca/

» Using Children in Armed Conflict: A Legitimate African Tradition?
   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.
   http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No32/Contents.html