who are knocking in vain at the doors of the Soldier's Child's Refuge for admittance. They cannot enter, for there is no room for them. This ought not to be. Innocent childhood should not be left ...

Research on child soldiers in 1998 revealed that an estimated 300,000 children or more under the age of eighteen were fighting in more than thirty armed conflicts around the world. Although most ...

Marian believes that her father was a British soldier, but she has never met him. She does not even know his name. Marian is among a group of mixed-race children whose mothers say they were ...

To date, the Special Court has not prosecuted any individuals for crimes committed before age 18. Instead of prosecuting former child soldiers, both the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the ...

Their animals and their food crops were destroyed or taken by soldiers. They faced disease and even starvation. Yet for some Southern children — African American slaves — this brutal war meant ...