"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 ...

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.

As a teenager in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah was brainwashed, drugged and forced to kill. Now he works to rehabilitate child soldiers.

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

Today, child soldiers are fighting in at least 14 countries, including Colombia, Myanmar (also known as Burma) and Afghanistan. In most of these cases, there have been no arrest warrants, ...

Former child soldiers stand in line waiting to be registered with UNICEF to receive a release package. AP “When she came, they told me to shoot her or I’d be killed instead,” the boy said.

There has been significant progress recently toward ridding the world of child soldiers. In May, the U.S. Congress took action that will advance the agenda to help protect the world’s children ...

"Child soldiers will be used by [warring] parties for as long as the war continues. There must be a political solution," says the International Crisis Group’s Senior Adviser John Prendergast.

Former child soldiers can lead healthy lives after fighting in wars. Take, for example, Ngor Mayol. He now works in a grocery store in Georgia.

Across Asia, Africa and Latin America, children as young as 6 years old are being forced into life as child soldiers. Children you'd expect to see in a classroom are carrying AK-47s instead of books.

In early January, an affiliate of UNICEF USA called End Trafficking tweeted that 300,000 children are used as soldiers worldwide. A reader wondered how UNICEF knew this figure, and so we decided ...

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 ...