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Child Soldiers - Resources

QUNO Publications

• Young Soldiers Why They Choose to Fight, Rachel Brett & Irma Specht (Geneva, ILO/Lynne Rienner, 2004)

• Former Child Soldiers as Refugees in Germany, Michaela Ludwig (jointly with terre des hommes Germany)(pdf 312 kb)

• Jugendliche. Warum sie Soldat werden. (Shortened German Version of: Young Soldiers: Why they choose to fight.) (terre des hommes Germany and Quäker-Hilfe Stiftung, 2004) (pdf 576 kb)

• Child Soldiers Oral Statement CHR60, R. Brett (2004)(pdf 96 kb)

• Child Soldiers Written Statement CHR60, R. Brett (2004) (pdf 116 kb)

• Paper on Adolescent Volunteers given at the Spanish Red Cross Conference, Valencia, Spain, 5-7 November 2003 (pdf 210 kb)

• “Child Soldiers.” Oral statement to the 59th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, R. Brett (June 2003) (pdf 10 kb)

• The Voices of Girl Child Soldiers (January 2003) - Summary (pdf 252 kb)
  -The Voices of Girl Child Soldiers: Colombia (pdf 253 kb)
  - The Voices of Girl Child Soldiers: Philippines (pdf 422 kb)
  - The Voices of Girl Child Soldiers: Sri Lanka (pdf 196 kb)

• Voces de jovenes excombatientes. Yvonne E. Keairns (pdf 996 kb)

• Girl Soldiers: Challenging the Assumptions, Rachel Brett (pdf 110 kb)

• Juvenile Justice, counter-terrorism and children (pdf 71 kb)

• La question des enfants dans le cadre de la justice pour mineurs et de la lutte contre le terrorisme (pdf 85 kb)

• Report on the 58th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, Rachel Brett (May 2002) (pdf 84 kb)

• Children the Invisible Soldiers, Rachel Brett & Margaret McCallin (Stockholm, Rädda Barnen, 1996, 2nd ed. 1998)

Websites

• Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict

• UN Child-Rights Treaties

• The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

• The Watchlist of the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children

• United Nations Development Fund for Women

• UNICEF

• Links: UN, ILO, UNHCR, UNICEF, ICRC, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict; Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, Swedish Save the Children (Rädda Barnen), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Terre des Hommes Germany, International Save the Child Alliance, Defence for Children International, Jesuit Refugee Service, World Vision International, Quaeker Hilfe e.V, AFSC