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Shaping Knowledge and Attitude towards Child Protection Capacity Building in Peace Support Operations
For over two decades, Save the Children (SC) has been working with armed forces in sub-Saharan Africa to promote the rights of children in conflicts, post-conflict and protracted political emergency situations. In the last ten years, SC has worked with th
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Understanding and addressing the phenomenon of ‘Child Soldiers’- The gap between the global humanitarian discourse and the local understandings and experiences of young people’s military recruitment
This Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) working paper has critically examined the global humanitarian discourse on child soldiers and the gap between this discourse and the lived realities at the local level. Without pre-judging children’s presence in the milit
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Behind the Uniform: Training the military in child rights and child protection in Africa
This report is a documentation of how the military training programme works, its approaches, successes and challenges. It is based on evaluation reports, questionnaires and interviews bringing out personal observations by the militaries themselves. The re
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NGO Complementary report on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC)
This report provides supplementary information on Uganda’s initial report on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC). It highlights key measures under
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Save the Children Alliance Military Training. Mapping Exercise by Save the Children-Sweden
The importance of training militaries in child rights and child protection becomes increasingly obvious in the wake of so many humanitarian crises impossible to assist without the cooperation and support by militaries, in addition to the tragic fact that
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Fighting back- Child and community-led strategies to avoid children’s recruitment into armed forces and groups in West Africa
This report reveals the complexity of the issue of children’s recruitment into armed forces. It highlights the need for context-specific responses that focus on child protection mechanisms, attitudes towards recruitment, education and poverty alleviation.
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Uganda: Right to health, right to information, right to education, right to non-discrimination, recruitment and use of child soldiers
Supplementary report to Uganda's 2nd periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, submitted by Human Rights Watch in May 2005. This submission is based on Human Rights Watch investigations in Uganda by the Childre
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Child soldiers: CRC Country Briefs
Supplementary report to Liberia's initial report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, prepared by The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. In the context of ongoing conflict, reports indicate that the Armed Forces
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Child soldiers: CRC Country Briefs- Pakistan
Supplementary Information to Pakistan's second periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. While there is currently no conscription in Pakistan, government armed forces recruit volunteers at the age of 16. There
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Stolen Children: Abduction and recruitment in northern Uganda
Supplementary report to Uganda's 2nd periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child presented by Human Rights Watch. This report was published in March 2003 as Vol.15 No.7(A), and is based on field research conducted
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Bangladesh NGO report
Supplementary Information to Bangladesh's second periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, submitted by The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers to the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its Pre-ses
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Children not soldiers- Guidelines for working with child soldiers and children associated with fighting forces
"Children not soldiers" provides guidance for those working with children directly involved in armed conflict on these and other key areas. Drawing on existing and emerging lessons of experience from different countries, it highlights issues of special co