Children, youth and conflict
- Early to war
- Both the Chadian government and the FUC have been cooperating with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to identify and demobilise child soldiers in their ranks. While this is to be applauded, how to ensure government’s stated commitment to these efforts is being translated to the field level?
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- A hidden crisis: turning the spotlight on armed conflict and education
- S. Al-Samarrai;N. Bella;S. Cameron / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 2011
- Violent conflict is one of the greatest development challenges facing the international community. Beyond the immediate human suffering it causes, it is a source of poverty, inequality and economic...
- Identity, youth and xenophobic violence in a Cape Town neighbourhood
- A. Cooper / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2009
- This paper was as a result of a survey which was carried out in South Africa to demonstrate how the scarcity of food may have resulted in the May 2008 violence. The author analyses how social identiti...
- Tackling the mines and explosive remnants of war in Iraq
- United Nations Development Programme , 2009
- The magnitude of Iraq’s problem with mine and unexploded remnants of war together with the socio-economic impact needs to be determined and addressed as a matter of urgency. As a recent signa...
- Refugee girls in states affected by armed conflict
- Women's Refugee Commission, 2009
- More than 140 million girls live in fragile states affected by armed conflict. As they flee from war, girls face many dangers, including rape, landmines, gunfire and hunger. They may be recruited i...
- To what extent are children affected by armed conflict in Myanmar?
- Watchlist/Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, 2009
- This report draws attention to the suffering of children in Myanmar due to the political and socioeconomic turmoil and the ensuing armed conflict. For decades Myanmar Armed Forces and associated armed...
- UNICEF humanitarian action report 2009: challenges to be faced
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2009
- This 2009 UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report is an appeal for children and women affected by emergencies in 36 countries in the six UNICEF regions....
- Addressing the security needs of children and young people
- D. Nosworthy (ed) / Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces , 2009
- Security sector reform (SSR) is increasingly being seen as a key component of post-conflict reconstruction. This is due to the recognition that for there to be an emergence of a fair and equitable ...
- Reducing child mortality in emergencies
- World Health Organization , 2008
- The acute phase of an emergency is defined by crude mortality rate and persists as long as the crude mortality rate is at least double the baseline mortality rate, that is, as long as there ar...
- How to protect children from violence and abuse
- E. Jareg / Child Rights Information Network , 2008
- Save the Children developed this book as part of a package of learning materials for child rights workers about relevant measures to protect children against violence. The book discusses the differ...
- Female combatants in African wars
- C. Coulter;M. Persson;M. Utas / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2008
- Young women are not only combatants in contemporary African wars, they also participate in a whole array of different roles. By and large, though they remain invisible in these contexts to northern po...
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