http://www.unicef.org/sowc96/ciwcont.htm

a.. Introduction
b.. Children in war
c.. Children as soldiers
d.. Torture and rape
e.. Uprooted children
f.. Famine and disease
g.. Sanctions
h.. The trauma of war
i.. Military expenditure—the opportunity cost
j.. The legacy of land-mines
k.. A continuum of violence
l.. International protections
m.. The power of information
n.. The possibilities for prevention
o.. Children as zones of peace
p.. A new age of development uncertainty
q.. War relief for children
r.. Anti-war agenda
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconf\
lict/
Children of Conflict
Child workers - Child Soldiers - Wounded Children - Lost Children
http://hrw.org/worldreport99/special/child.html

A new international campaign emerged in 1998 to stop the global use of children
as soldiers, whose numbers grew to more than 300,000. The campaign sought to
overcome the diplomatic deadlock that had stymied efforts to establish adequate
standards prohibiting the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict.

Existing international law allowed children as young as fifteen to be legally
recruited and sent into combat. While the existing standard was nearly
universally recognized as inadequate, efforts through the United Nations to
raise this age to eighteen remained unsuccessful. Despite four years of
negotiations, a working group established by the Commission on Human Rights
failed to reach agreement in 1998 on a text, largely due to a small number of
states which resisted any measure that exceeded their existing national
standards. The United States mounted the strongest opposition, despite the fact
that as one of only two countries that has failed to ratify the Convention on
the Rights of the Child, it would not even be eligible to join the optional
protocol.

http://www.child-soldiers.org/

The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers works to prevent the recruitment
and use of children as soldiers, to secure their demobilisation and to ensure
their rehabilitation and reintegration into society.

NEW! Action appeal: Urge Members of the European Parliament to sign Written
Declaration 77/2007 to eliminate the use of child soldiers

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