Toll of the Child Soldiers
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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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Boys and girls as young as nine years old are in the front line of wars across the world, and even when the fighting has finished they are largely neglected in the peace process, a report said Wednesday.
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
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DAKAR, Senegal -- Six years of continuing conflict in Congo have claimed 3.8 million lives, half of them children, with most killed by disease and famine in the still largely cutoff east, according to an International Rescue Committee study that estimates the toll.
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BAQUBA, Sep 2 (IPS) - The violence around the continuing U.S. military  operations in this city has robbed children of their childhood.
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Governments in at least 10 countries continue to use children to fight on the frontline, according to a new report. &quot;Scores of armed political groups in most regions of the world continued to recruit children
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Â· 31 children worldwide rescued, 15 in BritainÂ· Film files seized include babies being raped
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MONDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Global experts on child health are meeting in New York City on Monday to discuss an ongoing tragedy: the fact that 10.5 million children under the age of five die each year.
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Governments are undermining progress in ending the use of children as soldiers. That is the conclusion of a coalition of the world&#39;s leading human-rights organizations.
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THEY are the forgotten victims of the Iraq conflict - the hundreds of soldiers maimed or wounded in the invasion and its 20-month aftermath.
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Child soldiers are still being recruited in at least 13 countries from Afghanistan to Uganda, 10 years after international guidelines were agreed to eradicate their use, a British-based charity said on Monday.
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Deaths bring to 91 number of Palestinians killed since Israeli armour first poured into Gaza Strip on September 28. JABALIYA, Gaza Strip - Two Palestinian children were killed by Israeli fire in the refugee
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Up to 10,000 people, many of them  children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of  violence in Darfur camps despite a big international aid  effort, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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Children may make up a third of those killed in the Asian tsunami disaster, with many more at risk from disease.
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi soldiers found 24 severely malnourished children in a Baghdad orphanage -- some tied to their beds and too weak to stand, the US military said yesterday.
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KINSHASA, Congo Â Boys and girls are being recruited in record numbers to act as soldiers, spies and sex slaves in Congo and children have been spotted marching in formation in the war-wracked east of the country over the past week, international charity Save the Children said Monday.
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Over 4,000 children under 14 have attempted to take their own lives in the past year, claim new figures