"Good news from our colleagues in the peacekeeping mission in Mali.... Nine child combatants were handed over to the UN mission in Kidal this morning," the spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters ...

Today, a new generation of children is being drawn into warfare in a different way. Not through the barrel of a gun, but through the glow of a screen – existing child protection frameworks are ill ...

More than one in five of South Sudan's 11 million people has fled their homes as a result of the ethnically charged war. A spike in the forced recruitment of child soldiers in South Sudan could be ...

The use of child soldiers is a profound human tragedy that continues to scar generations across the world. According to the United Nations, over the years, thousands of children, some as young as six ...

The African Ministerial Conference on the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) of Child Soldiers concluded on Thursday with the adoption of the Rabat Declaration, which underscores ...