Photographer Cedric Gerbehaye documents a transit center in Ituri District, where the UN and the government of Congo struggle to re-integrate former militia members back into society A boy soldier ...

South Sudan’s efforts to end the recruitment of child soldiers appear to be paying off. According to the UN Mission in South Sudan, UNMISS, some children have just been released by the South Sudan ...

2024 marked the thirty-fifth anniversary of a UN commitment to protect children from being recruited as soldiers. However, armed groups have increased the recruitment and use of children in armed ...

Colombian soldiers stand in formation as war material seized from a dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is displayed in Cucuta [File: Carlos Eduardo Ramirez/Reuters] ...

"It's the brutal recruitment that is the most heart wrenching," Skye Wheeler, the report's author, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. More than a dozen senior commanders and officials who children ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – Several residents from a local children’s home made their first visit here Monday to interact with Soldiers and see a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter up close. Soldiers invited nearly a ...

More than one in five of South Sudan's 11 million people has fled their homes as a result of the ethnically charged war. A spike in the forced recruitment of child soldiers in South Sudan could be ...