Child Soldiers
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 9, 2023
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The grave rights violations allegedly being committed against children by Russian troops in Ukraine in the last year merits listing in the upcoming annual report on children and armed conflict by the United Nations secretary-general, says a new study…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Damilola Banjo
- • August 1, 2022
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LAGOS, Nigeria — The United Nations verified the abduction of 4,278 children in 21 countries last year in its recent annual report on children and armed conflict, but it failed to acknowledge widespread kidnappings throughout northwest and north-central Nigeria…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Terrorism
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 12, 2021
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In times of extreme adversity, hope and light can come from unexpected places. In South Sudan — haunted by a war for independence, followed by a civil war and continued unrest in its short history — people can point…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, Poverty, Women
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • May 31, 2021
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The small Baltic country of Estonia is ready to boost the prospects of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres winning a second term as the country holds its last Security Council presidency in June during its current elected term. “It…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Secretary-General, Security Council Presidency
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- Stephen Schlesinger
- • May 6, 2020
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This fall, the United Nations will celebrate its 75th anniversary. This is a notable occasion. Most global security bodies have had short shelf lives. But the UN has shown an extraordinary durability — a tribute to how this body…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Covid-19, Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach  and Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 15, 2020
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The coronavirus has officially hit the United Nations at its New York City headquarters. On Thursday, March 12, the first reported case was confirmed by a diplomat with the Philippines mission to the UN, who said that a Filipino…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Covid-19, Health and Population, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • August 6, 2019
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Even though many people think of August as vacation time, Joanna Wronecka, Poland’s ambassador to the United Nations, is not taking off anytime soon, as she is presiding over the Security Council for the month. As the Security Council…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Middle East, Security Council Presidency
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- Opinion by Dragica Mikavica
- • July 30, 2019
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Every time the budget committee of the United Nations meets, as it did in June, child-protection advocates enter a familiar existential crisis: will the United States and China cut UN budgets specifically allocated to specialists on child protection in…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, OPINIONS, US-UN Relations
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- Julie Vanderperre
- • November 13, 2017
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The one sure announcement to emerge from the annual United Nations peacekeeping defense ministerial conference this week will be the adoption of the Vancouver Principles, a set of rules aimed primarily at preventing the recruitment and use of child…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, UN Peacekeeping
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- Kacie Candela
- • April 30, 2017
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Two women have been named to highly visible posts at the United Nations: Pramila Patten of Mauritius is the new special envoy on sexual violence in conflict and begins in mid-June; and Virginia Gamba, an Argentine, is special envoy on children…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, UN Special Envoys, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 8, 2016
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THE HAGUE — At the glassy, eco-minded new building of the International Criminal Court here in the Netherlands’ capital, people who are being tried may still be called “detainees,” but make no mistake: they remain accused of such atrocities…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 1, 2016
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Grim images from the small world of children are multiplying. Little bodies adrift in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. Uncomprehending faces pressed against wire fences and barricades in Europe from the Balkans to the French port of Calais. At…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Child Soldiers, Middle East
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- Johanna Higgs
- • August 31, 2015
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MEDELLIN, Colombia — “There is conflict in every single country in the world,” a 16-year-old former combatant from the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, rebel group said at a rehabilitation center for demobilized child soldiers here in…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Human Rights, Latin America, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 1, 2015
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As Colombia’s long civil war appears to be headed toward a hard-sought peaceful settlement, the government may be ready to send soldiers from its huge, well-financed military to participate in peacekeeping missions of the United Nations. Colombian forces’ work in…
- Categories: Caribbean, Child Soldiers, UN Peacekeeping
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 19, 2014
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As Sunni Muslim extremists first seized strategic cities in Iraq last week, and a United Nations spokesman for the human-rights high commissioner, Navi Pillay, said that rapes had been part of the mayhem, leaving four female victims dead from…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women
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