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Quaker UN Office Geneva – Girl Soldiers Challenging the Assumptions. By Rachel Brett
The Voices of Girl Child Soldiers. By Yvonne E. Kearns PHD

UNICEF
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Children and War
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict Welcomes Agreement to Raise Minimum Age for Participation in Conflict to 18 Years (Press Release, UN, 2000)
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children & Armed Conflict Urges
States to Raise Minimum Age for Requirement and Participation in Conflict from 15 to 18 Years. (Press Release, UN, 2000)
Olara A. Otunnu Introductory Statement to the UN General Assembly (Press Release, PDF, UN, 2000)
Children and Armed Conflict Press Release on Report to the UN General Assembly (PDF, 1999)
UN Security Council Resolution 1261 on children and armed conflict (PDF,1999)

Worldwide Use of Child Soldiers Continues Unabated (Human Rights Watch January 2004) How to Fight, How to Kill:
Child Soldiers in Liberia (Human Rights Watch)
Child Soldiers Global Report
Impact of Armed Conflict on Children Report of Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary General of the United Nations
Exploring Small Arms Demand A Youth Perspective (PDF, ISS, 2003)
Protection of Children affected by Armed Conflict (Children and Armed Conflict, 1999)
Light Weapons : Not Suitable for Children (International Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 1998)
Discussion Paper for the IASC-WG Small Arms Reference Group
Protection of children affected by armed conflict (UN, 1998)
A worldwide commitment against light weapons and child soldiers (Pax Christi, 1997)
Recent Human Rights Watch Reports on the Use of Child Soldiers

Regional Publications

Africa
Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict: Sudan Report (PDF, Watchlist on Children & Armed Conflict, 2003)
Watchlist on Children & Armed Conflict Burundi Report (Watchlist on Children & Armed Conflict, 2002)

South America
Children in Organised Armed Violence: a study of children and adolescents involved in territorial drug faction disputes in Rio de Janeiro (PDF, Viva Rio, 2002)

Asia
My Gun was as Tall as Me – Child Soldiers in Burma

IRIN Web Special on child soldiers
http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_soldiers.html
ICRC Children and War Information Kit
Listen to child soldiers, wounded, lost and working children tell their stories
Stop Using Child Soldiers by Stefania Capodaglio
Center for Defence Information
Documentary – Innocence Lost: Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
Global Information Network in Education
The Children and Armed Conflict Unit – University of Essex
Children and War
Other Search Links
Child Soldiers Newsletter (PDF, Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 2002)
Accessible Page of Child Soldier Resource Links
Children of War - A one hour radio documentary focusing on current events and issues involving children and military conflict.

Why are girl soldiers still neglected?

February 2009

Congo gangs hold thousands of child soldiers-report
Reuters Alert Net
10 October 2006

Sudan's child soldiers
East African (Kenya)
18 September 2006

Rewrite the Future:
Giving education and hope to children affected by armed conflict

Save the Children Alliance

Profile: Children and Armed Conflict
Security Council Report
12 July 2006

Partnerships to end violations against children during armed conflict
Watchlist on Children in Armed Conflict
July 2006

Implications of Children in Armed Conflict for US Clinical Practice
Conference, 9 June 2006

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
(Winter 2005 newsletter, PDF)

Child soldiers on the frontline
Reuters AlertNet factsheet

Security Council establishes monitoring, reporting mechanism on use of child soldiers, unanimously adopting resolution 1612 (2005)
ReliefWeb
26 Jully 2005

New Report on Armed Children

Forgotten Casualties of War: Girls in Armed Conflict
Save the Children report

Child Soldiers Global Report 2004
(Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, November 2004)

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
(Spring 2005 newsletter, PDF)

DRC: The problems of reintegrating child soldiers
IRIN
12 April 2005

Kamala Sarup: Peace Is Every Child's Right
Scoop (New Zealand)
11 March 2005

Burundi: Sur le Vif (Bulletin d'information No 1)
ISHAKA Association (PDF)

UN Says Use of Child Soldiers Widespread, But Declining
VOA News
23 February 2005

U.N. child soldier report lists violators
Washington Times
9 February 2005

Children in tsunamis recruited by rebels
Globe and Mail (Canada)
14 January 2005

Violations against Children in Armed Conflict:
Action plan for monitoring, reporting and response
Watchlist on Children in Armed Conflict