Tag Archives : child soldiers

Today is the 20th anniversary of UN’s Convention on Rights of the Child and various ceremonies are being held all over the world to mark the event. This Convention on Rights of the Child (CRC) was signed in 1989 and it endorses and guarantees basic right of all children to life, education, play and protection from abuse. This landmark human rights [...]

Tens of thousands of Tamil children were displaced along with their families due to the intense fighting between Sri Lankan troops and the guerrilla group Tamil Tigers that saw the bloody defeat of the latter. These children are among the thousands now packed in refugee camps that have been observed as virtual prison camps. International human rights [...]

I was on a trip for some documentary film project in Mindanao, the beleaguered region in southern Philippines that has lately figured in international news once again due to radical Islamists and their kidnap-for-ransom enterprise, when I found myself in a small dusty town in deepest darkest Mindanao. I quickly finished shooting the interviews for [...]

The UN Security Council urges Member States to act vigorously to end impunity for those who violate children’s rights by recruiting them to become child soldiers. The agency also reiterated its condemnation of the employment of children in war by combatant sides, as well as violence and sexual abuse of children who are victims in armed conflicts. Recruitment [...]