[humantraffic-vn] Child Trafficking Gateway 128 - Child Soldiers and Children in Armed Conflict

[Vern Weitzel]

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Subject: 	19 Child Trafficking Gateway 128 - Child Soldiers and Children
in Armed Conflict
Date: 	Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:17:14 +0200
From: 	muna.basnyat at tdh.ch
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Dear friends and colleagues

We have again updated the digital library
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The update includes ten new documents dealing with *_Child Soldiers and
Children in Armed Conflict. _*

Defence for Children International / Palestine Section (DCI/PS). (2008).
*Under Attack: Settler Violence against Palestinian Children in the
Occupied Territory. *40 p. “The report is based on evidence gathered
during the period January 2007 – June 2008 and is limited to settler
attacks on Palestinian children in the Israeli-occupied West Bank,
including East Jerusalem. The report highlights nine separate incidents
of settler attacks including shootings, beatings and stone-throwing
incidents, resulting in injuries to 12 Palestinian children.”
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/dci_ps_08_under_attack_0109.pdf_

Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science (2006). *Night commuting in
Gulu, Northern Uganda. From Spontaneous Strategy to New Social
Institution*. 110 p. Master's Thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies.
Master's Thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies. Night commuting, as it is
occuring in the parts of Northern Uganda today, is the social practice
of thousands of children leaving their households at night to go and
sleep in one of the many night commuter centres that are established in
the urban areas of Gulu and Kitgum. The common conception about night
commuting is that the children come to the centres solely out of fear of
abduction. This report challenges this notion and investigates the
additional factors that make children in Gulu spend their nights in the
night commuter centres.”
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/fafo_06_night_commut_0109.pdf_

Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB). (2009).* Forgotten
Future: Children and Armed Conflict in Burma*. 102 p.  Burma continues
to be deeply affected by years of internal armed conflict. Intermittent
clashes between the Tatmadaw and opposition forces are slowly eroding
communities on the fringes of the country where child rights violations
are endemic. In contrast with most other war-ravaged regions around the
world, where civilian abuses are perpetrated primarily by non-state
armed groups (NSAGs), the overwhelming majority of Burma’s human rights
abuses occur under the hand of its ruling junta. Tatmadaw soldiers rape,
torture, kill, abduct, and burn down entire villages – either under the
pretense of punishing dissidents or in pursuit of the SPDC’s
border-races development agenda.
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/hreib_child_conflict_burma_0309.pdf_

Human Rights Watch (2008). *Dangerous Duty. Children and the
Chhattisgarh Conflict. *64 p. The conflict in India’s Chhattisgarh state
has irreparably damaged children’s lives. All parties to the
conflict—Maoist rebels (Naxalites), state-supported anti-Maoist
vigilante groups (known as Salwa Judum), and government security
forces—have recruited children in different capacities that expose them
to the risk of injury and death. The dramatic escalation of the conflict
since mid-2005 has also caused massive displacement, resulted in the
destruction of dozens of schools, and severely impacted children’s
access to education.”
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/hrw_08_dangerous_duty_0109.pdf_


Nordic Africa Institute (2008). *Young Female Fighters in African Wars*.
54 p. 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 policy makers
and NGOs. This policy dialogue argues that to improve policy and
programming efforts it is necessary to broaden the understanding of
young women’s roles and participation in armed conflict in Africa
historically and today.*/
/*_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/young_female_fighters_wars_0309.pdf_



Sanín, F.G. (2007).* Organizing minors: The case of Colombia. *42 p.
“Why do minors join non-state armed organizations? Practitioners and
researchers have thoroughly examined an ample set of push factors that
range from poverty to the provision of weapons. It can reasonably be
conjectured, though, that both pull factors and the interaction between
push and pull also play a crucial role. This paper builds on the notion
that organizations are precisely such a factor –probably the main one.
Organizations are a reference point in the regions in which they have
influence, develop role models that relate directly to the imagination
of the dwellers, and create structures that become real life
alternatives.”
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/sanin_07_organizing_minors_0109.pdf_

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (2002).* Adult Wars, Child
Soldiers. Voices of Children Involved in Armed Conflict in the East Asia
and Pacific Region*. 84 p. his report is based on in-depth interviews
with 69 current and former child soldiers in six countries in East Asia
and the Pacific. Six children were interviewed in Cambodia, 13 in East
Timor, 4 in Indonesia, 20 in Myanmar (on the Myanmar-Thailand border),
17 in Papua New Guinea (Bougainville) and 9 in the Philippines. While
children from these conflict areas were selected for interviews, other
conflicts in the region are also known to use children.
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/unicef_02_adult_soldiers_0109.pdf_

University of Pittsburgh (2008). *Protecting children born of sexual
violence and exploitation in conflict zones: existing practice and
knowledge gaps*. 23 p. “Sexual violence is endemic in conflict-affected
areas, and children are often born as a result. It has been estimated
that tens of thousands of children have been born out of mass rape
campaigns or sexual exploitation during times of war in the last decade
alone. Born of war, these children are deeply affected by the social
upheavals that brought about their conception, as well as their
treatment by society on the basis of their biological origins.”
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/pittsburgh_protecting_child_report_0109.pdf_


Vargas-Barón, E. (2007). *National Policies to Prevent the Recruitment
of Child Soldiers. *31 p. Child soldiers live in a grim world that
largely exists outside of international and national laws. Because the
actions required to prevent child soldier recruitment are diverse,
prevention policies should include a variety of inter-sectoral and
integrated approaches, including especially services for education and
training in the broadest and most flexible sense. The recruitment of
child soldiers has been condemned by the international community through
the adoption of several international conventions, protocols and UN
resolutions for human rights, fundamental freedoms, and international
security, including those for educational and children’s rights.”
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/vargas_07_national_policies_0109.pdf_

War and Children Identity Project (2001).* The War Children of the
World.* 117 p. The intention of this report is to bring attention to
those children who have each of their parents on different sides of the
frontlines or who’s parents give them a stigma when they grow up. These
children’s suffering often starts after the war has formally ended.
Every war sees children born as a result of contact between local women
and soldiers. The soldier might be seen as an enemy – or an allied.
  _http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/the_war_children__0309.pdf_



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Regards

*Muna Basnyat                                                *
Regional Anti – Trafficking Adviser
Terre des hommes Foundation
Kathmandu, Nepal

*Reinhard Fichtl *
Delegate
Terre des hommes Foundation
Sri Lanka Office


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