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May 24, 2019 Dispatches

Children in War Deserve Accurate ‘List of Shame’

Groups Urge UN to Correctly Name Parties Responsible

People are seen near a bus destroyed by an airstrike that killed dozens of children, in a photograph taken on August 12, 2018 in Saada, Yemen.
May 24, 2019 Letter

Joint letter to the UN Secretary-General on children and armed conflict

March 6, 2019 News Release

Iraq: ISIS Child Suspects Arbitrarily Arrested, Tortured

Children Should Be Rehabilitated, Reintegrated

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March 4, 2019 Commentary

Some Child Soldiers Get Rehabilitation, Others Get Prison

January 8, 2019 Report

Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Detained Children Tortured

Beatings, Electric Shock to Coerce ISIS Confessions

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November 2, 2018 Dispatches

The Urgent Need – and Hope – for Protecting Children in War

New Report Suggests Ways to Strengthen International Law

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September 11, 2018 Dispatches

Key Steps Taken to End Use of Child Soldiers in Syria

Forces in Northeast Issue Order to Prohibit Recruitment, Verify Ages

Ain Issa displaced persons camp, one of three camps in northeast Syria where Human Rights Watch found the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) have been recruiting children for military participation, June 2017.
August 3, 2018 News Release

Syria: Armed Group Recruiting Children in Camps

People’s Protection Units Enlist Under 18s from Vulnerable Families

Ain Issa displaced persons camp, one of three camps in northeast Syria where Human Rights Watch found the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) have been recruiting children for military participation, June 2017.
August 3, 2018 Letter

Letter from the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD)-led Autonomous Administration, Responding to Human Rights Watch on Child Recruitment

June 29, 2018 Dispatches

A Better US List of Countries Using Child Soldiers

State Department Restores Burma and Iraq to its Annual List of Violators

Child soldiers put down their guns in a disarmament and release ceremony in Jonglei state, South Sudan, February 10, 2015.
June 15, 2018 Report

Yemen: Key Concerns for Hodeida Battle

Poor Record of Coalition and Houthi Indiscriminate Attacks and Aid Restrictions

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April 2, 2018 News Release

Myanmar: Quash Conviction of Former Child Soldier

Protect Victims of Underage Military Recruitment

Myanmar army soldiers take positions near Laukkai, February 17, 2015.
February 21, 2018 News Release

Somalia: Detained Children Face Abuse

Emphasize Rehabilitation, Develop Child-Specific Procedures

A prison warden at a prison in Garowe, Puntland state, in northeastern Somalia, December 2016.
February 21, 2018 Interview

Interview: How Security Forces in Somalia Fail to Protect Children

After recruitment by Al-Shabab, children face difficult conditions in detention

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February 5, 2018 Report

South Sudan: Warring Parties Break Promises on Child Soldiers

UN, AU Need to Impose Sanctions, Get Court Running

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