Hope for Uganda's Child Soldiers?
471217
An end may finally be near for the East African rebellion that forced thousands of abducted children to take part in a brutal campaign of terror
400986
A senior U.N. official says 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child soldiers many of whom are killed, maimed, abducted and raped and denied access to humanitarian groups
192533
Uganda says it will start deploying its soldiers as part of a peace force in Somalia within the next two weeks.
110505
A group of Ugandan officials have met rebel Lord&#39;s Resistance Army (LRA) commanders near the border with Sudan, aiming at ending the 18-year insurgency in the north, according to a report reaching here on Wednesday.
391048
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.
669971
To some international legal experts, Joseph Kony, commander of the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, should be turned over to the International Criminal Court, which has issued arrest warrants for him and four top commanders for war crimes during his 21-year guerrilla war.
396170
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.
570317
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.
329572
Uganda's army outlines plans to help displaced people return home by setting up half-way camps in the north.
769130
The Christian Science Monitor - With time running out on the African Union's peacekeeping force in Darfur, the United Nations may find out if the international community has the ability to stop renewed genocide.
532523
Ugandan rebels say attacks by the army may undermine the peace process, supposed to end an 18-year war.
288231
More than one billion children, half of the world's population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS, the United Nations Children's Fund said in its annual report.
606840
There is no doubt that we are in a time of chaos in the world. Wars and genocide are as prevalent as ever.     Misery and suffering are on every continent of the globe we call earth. The world is currently focused on the 'War In Iraq' and the problem of nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea but the sad fact is threats to world peace are as prevalent as ever in spite of the efforts of the UN.    Where do we turn? Our respective governments? Grassroots support? Does genocide on the African continent for example even matter?    It is not unreasonable to look to the United Nations for understanding and problem resolution. Presumably, we expect it to be an unbiased and peace loving organization. Yet at closer examination one begins to realize the fact that the United Nations has been a total failure in terms of world peace. Rarely has the UN brought enough countries together to form an alliance to intervene meaningfully in the affairs of an oppressive and brutal country.    With the exception of the World Health Organization little good has come from the peace making mission of the U.N. I suggest the UN go to what it does best. With its world standing already established, the UN should focus on research, education and health, the missions it does best.
442465
A warlord in eastern Congo is recruiting child soldiers in violation of international law, U.N. and government officials said Wednesday.
532571
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
608461
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.
96840
One billion children - half the world&#39;s population of children - suffer from poverty, conflict, HIV and AIDS, according to the United Nations child rights organisation.