Burma 'acting on child soldiers'
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Burma punishes 43 officials for recruiting child soldiers, state media say, as the UN urges sanctions on the issue.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels  have been recruiting child soldiers in coastal areas badly hit by December's tsunami, the UN says.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 26 -- After nine days of restraint, Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting Buddhist monks Wednesday, with security forces firing warning shots, shooting tear gas canisters, swinging truncheons and making scores of arrests to suppress anti-government marchers.
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The US says it is targeting a businessman and relatives of leaders of the military regime in new sanctions on Burma.
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Burma's army has moved reinforcements into ethnic minority areas for the probable renewal of an offensive
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The State Department said Monday it is taking seriously allegations that Laotian military forces may have massacred children of the country's Hmong ethnic minority.
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The UN says Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have recruited 40 child soldiers since December's tsunami.
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Burma tells the UK to stay out of its affairs as concerns continue over its participation in an EU-Asia meeting.
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Raids by Afghan and NATO troops against Taliban insurgents in southern and southwestern Afghanistan killed several civilians, among them children, local officials said.
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A coalition of human rights groups called Wednesday for recruiters of child soldiers to face international criminal court charges, the BBC reported.
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Children are fighting in almost every major conflict, in both government and opposition forces, according to a report published today.
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Marches in Rangoon turn into large-scale show of defiance towards country's ruling military.
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Children in Afghanistan are increasingly at risk as the country's security situation deteriorates and the central government's authority is weakened, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Thursday.
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Indonesia has accused Burma of trying to avoid the issue of the ongoing detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Burma was asked at an Asia-Pacific summit this week to clarify media reports that
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In places like Congo and Kosovo, peacekeepers have been accused of abusing the people they're protecting.
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The protests that shook Burma in September might have been crushed, but opponents of the military regime have not gone away, reports Chris McGreal
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 -- President Bush announced new sanctions against the military government of Burma Tuesday, figuratively joining hands with tens of thousands of protesters in the streets of Rangoon and challenging the United Nations to join him in a broader "mission of liberation."