child soldiers

Film Review: ‘Luce’: Can a Former Child Soldier Be Raised to Not Perpetrate a School Shooting?

R | 1h 49min | Drama | 2 August 2019 (USA) Mick Jagger nailed the state of the nation, nay—the world—in 2019, with his description of New York City in ...

August 6, 2019BY Mark Jackson
Children Recount Trauma of Abduction After Mass Release by South Sudan Rebels

YAMBIO, South Sudan–Bakhita was only 12 years old when rebels snatched her from her family's farm, adding her ...

February 8, 2018BY Reuters
An Interview With Megan Green of Invisible Children

Megan Green is the supporter engagement manager for Invisible Children, an organization that began after three filmmakers discovered ...

June 28, 2016BY Shelley B. Blank
ISIS Relying More on Children to Do Its Dirty Work

ISIS is seemingly trying to train a new generation of terrorists.

March 24, 2015BY Jack Phillips
Children in Congo Increasingly at Risk of Recruitment for Soldiers

In clashes between M23 rebels and the national Congolese army, 200,000 children in Goma are at risk of ...

November 28, 2012BY Kremena Krumova
U.N. Commits to International Arms Control Treaty

The $60 billion international arms trade is unregulated. After years of talks, the U.N. set a date last ...

November 14, 2012BY Gary Feuerberg
Gold Drives Congo Conflict, Says Report

Gold is easier to smuggle than conflict minerals, militant groups have found. Child labor and violence in the ...

October 25, 2012BY Alex Johnston
Al-Shabab Using Somali Children as ‘Canon Fodder’

Children in Somalia have been increasingly targeted by the al-Qaeda affiliated group, al-Shabab, for recruitment and are subjected ...

February 21, 2012BY Alex Johnston