Child soldiers

These child soldiers must carry out all types of tasks.

Harmonization of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, especially for child soldiers

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

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

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

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

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

There are more than 17,000 child soldiers fighting on the government side or for rebel forces even after 25,000 former child soldiers had been demobilized from rebel groups in Southern Sudan in 2001.

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

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

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

Special attention should be paid to children affected by armed conflict, including child soldiers.

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

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

(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

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.

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

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

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

It is widely known and accepted that insurgent groups in Myanmar extensively recruit and use child soldiers.

Some child soldiers must also lay or clear landmines, with all the risks that this activity entails.

A specific child demobilization and reintegration programme, supported by UNICEF and nine local committees, has resulted in the demobilization of 3,821 child soldiers and over 4,500 underage soldiers and war affected children have benefited from the reintegration assistance as of August 2004.

The Government and the international community should take steps to prevent forcible or involuntary recruitment of child soldiers.

However, insurgents are recruiting combatants, including child soldiers, in Liberia, mainly to fight in Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea.

Though serious, the charges against him recruiting child soldiers do not pretend to encompass the range of abuses committed.

Under the second phase, which began in December 2004 and is still ongoing, some 618 child soldiers were demobilized.

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

(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.

Child soldiers still linger in paramilitary groups, and there are compromising video recordings of leading Colombian politicians and drug lords.

Using a community based approach to ensure local support, UNICEF has been addressing the particular needs of returning child soldiers.

Your presence at this meeting is certainly an encouragement for those who are grappling with the phenomenon of child soldiers.

(i) To continue with and to step up its efforts to put a stop to the recruitment of child soldiers

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

Special emphasis has been put on demobilizing child soldiers within six months of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

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

Not all child soldiers have been demobilized and there are reports that FNL has been actively recruiting minors since March 2005.

They urge Governments and civil society to undertake serious disarmament, rehabilitation and reintegration measures for former child soldiers and young combatants.

The process of demobilization of child soldiers, begun in 2004, was almost completed, but the Government needed assistance in reintegrating them.

The Commission encourages the Government of Colombia to intensify its efforts to ensure the reintegration of all child soldiers into society.

Programmes for the rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers should be designed in a way precluding re abduction and recruitment.

The Commission encourages the Government of Colombia to intensify its efforts to ensure the reintegration of all child soldiers into society.

4 Ibid., pp. 35 and 111, cites a recent survey which estimates that 40 per cent of child soldiers are girls.

The Humanitarian Aid Department has financed projects on child related activities, such as therapeutic feeding, vaccination, primary education and the reintegration of child soldiers, for a total of 37 million in 2004.