Having 300,000 child soldiers in a world of 6.8 billion matters far less than having 15 percent of a particular country's adolescent population engaged in soldiering.

"To date, only 18 suspected minor cases remain pending verification," a government-run committee said in a statement published in the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper. It is unclear when the 93 ...

Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged the discharge of 93 minors from its armed forces, responding to a recent ...

In 2008, the US Congress passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act, which withholds certain types of US military assistance from governments using children in their forces or supporting militias ...

It is a tragedy every time a child is killed in war, which is precisely why Hamas's use of child soldiers is a war crime.. Hamas's tactics are designed to maximize civilian casualties in Gaza, a ...

Myanmar's ruling junta claimed on Friday that it had already released 93 children from military service, responding to a recent UN report that accused it of widespread child recruitment. The military ...

More than 300 child soldiers, including 87 girls, have been released in South Sudan's war-torn region of Yambio under a programme to help reintegrate them into society, the UN said on February 7 ...

The treaty brought about important change, prompting some violating governments to demobilize child soldiers, prosecute officers that recruited children, or change their deployment practices.But ...

Africa Child soldiers used by Islamist group in Mozambique attacks, says Human Rights Watch Fleeing residents recognized some child soldiers as missing relatives, HRW report says ...

JURIST: Being a child soldier exposes one to extreme violence at an early age. You discuss this at length in your memoir, but to the readers of JURIST, talk about how you became forcibly recruited as ...