Essay: Haiti’s gangs turn to starving children to bolster their ranks
AMALENDU MISRA looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at reports Haiti’s armed gangs are enlisting hundreds of children…
Haiti gangs are recruiting more child soldiers, human rights report says
Reuters Haiti’s armed gangs are increasingly recruiting children into their ranks, a report by Human Rights Watch warned on Wednesday, as near-famine conditions push boys to pick up guns while girls are sexually abused and forced into domestic work. The group, which advocates for human rights globally, said it had spoken to six children recently […]
Denmark to pressure Sweden over gang violence
Stockholm, Sweden Reuters Denmark will put pressure on Sweden to contain growing cross-border gang violence, including armed Swedish teenagers acting as “child soldiers” in turf wars, the Danish justice minister said on Monday. Denmark has seen a rise in violence on its soil by Swedish gang members in recent months and says the trend is […]
Essay: The UN has a “list of shame” for those who harm children in war – but who is missing?
In an article first published on The Conversation, SAMANTHA HOLMES, a research associate at the University of New York’s Centre for Applied Human Rights, looks at the “glaring omissions” from the UN list…
UN warns Haiti’s capital blockaded, no aid for malnourished children
United Nations/Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Haiti’s capital is almost completely cut off by air, sea and land blockades as gang violence intensifies, stopping aid from getting to 58,000 children with the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, the head of the UN children’s agency warned on Monday. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said two-thirds of Haiti’s children […]
Colombia must do more to stop child recruitment by armed groups – NGO
Bogota, ColombiaReuters Colombia’s government must increase efforts to stop armed groups from recruiting children, as it pushes for peace and surrender deals with rebels and crime gangs, thinktank International Crisis Group said on Friday, warning recruitment is rising. Colombian leftist President Gustavo Petro has made “total peace” – an end to almost six decades of […]
Essay: Slavery and war are tightly connected – but we had no idea just how much until we crunched the data
Scholar of modern slavery – MONTI DATTA, ANGHARAD SMITH, and KEVIN BALES – look, in an article first published on The Conversation, about what their research shows about the connection between slavery and conflict…
US places Russia on human trafficking, child soldier lists
Washington DC, US Reuters The United States on Tuesday placed Russia on lists of countries engaged in a “policy or pattern” of human trafficking and forced labor or whose security forces or government-backed armed groups recruit or use child soldiers. The State Department included the lists in its annual human trafficking report, which for the […]
Yemen’s conflict: Child soldiering continues despite Houthi promise
SAMY MAGDY, of Associated Press, reports on how, despite an agreement with the UN in April to halt the practice, the Houthis continue to recruit children into the military ranks to fight in the country’s ongoing civil war…
UN: Yemen’s Houthi rebels agree to stop using child soldiers
United Nations AP Yemen’s Houthi rebels have agreed to rid their ranks of child soldiers, who have fought by the thousands during the country’s seven years of civil war, the United Nations said Monday. The Houthis signed what the UN described as an “action plan” to end and prevent recruiting or using children in armed […]