CHILD SOLDIERS
Amnesty International: Child Soldiers
Child Soldiers- Amnesty International
Center for Defense Information (CDI): Children and Armed Conflict; provides written and visual information concerning the global use of child soldiers.
Child Soldiers-CDI
CIDA: Small Soldiers; an overview of information concerning the use of child soldiers as well as useful links to organizations seeking to protect child soldiers.
Small Soldiers-CIDA
The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Global report 2007 on Child Soldiers (Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers)
(PDF) Report
Child Soldiers.org: Set up in order to provide for giving a voice to the children affected by war.
Child Soldiers.org
Children and Armed Conflict
Human Rights Watch: Recent Human Rights Reports on the use of child soldiers.
Recent Reports Child Soldiers
Human Rights Watch World Report 1999: Child Soldiers. Research on child soldiers in 1998 revealed that an estimated 300,000 children or more under the age of eighteen were fighting in more than thirty armed conflicts around the world.
HRW World Report 1999: Children's Rights - Child Soldiers
Impact of Armed Conflict on Children: The complete report of Graca Machel, expert of the Secretary General of the United Nations, on the impact of war on children; it proposes an agenda to improve the proctection and care of children in conflict situations and to prevent these conflicts from occuring.
Impact of Armed Conflict on Children
Interview with General Roméo Dallaire: The role of CIDA and war-affected children
Interview
IRIN Web Special on Child Soldiers
Child Soldiers-IRIN
Radio Netherlands: Child Soldiers of Liberia; provides informaton about the use of child soldiers in the Liberian Civil war of 1989 to 1997.
Child Soldiers of Liberia
UN Cyber School Bus: Offers basic facts about child soldiers, relevant literature to the topic, progress being made to aid the children of armed conflicts as well as useful links to organizations working on behalf of child soldiers.
UN Cyber School Bus
UN Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict: The role of the Special Representative is to build awareness of the needs of war-affected children, to propose ideas and approaches to enhance the protection of children in war, to bring together key actors within and outside the UN to promote moreconcerted and effective responses, and to undertake humanitarian and diplomatic initiatives to unblock difficult political situations.
UN Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
UNICEF: Children and Armed Conflict, with background information on child soldiers as well as useful links relating to children in armed conflicts.
Children and Armed Conflict
Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict: The Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict strives to end violations against children in armed conflicts and to guarantee their rights. As a global network, the Watchlist builds partnerships among local, national and international non-governmental organizations, enhancing mutual capacities and strengths. Working together, it strategically collects and disseminates information on violations against children in conflicts in order to influence key decision-makers to create and implement programs and policies that effectively protect children.
Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
CHILDREN AND SMALL ARMS
Center for Defense Information (CDI): Center for Defense Information’s page on small arms and light weapons.
Center
for Defense Information-Small Arms
Global Policy Forum: Global Policy Forum’s page on small arms and light weapons.
Global Policy Forum-Small Arms
International Action Network On Small Arms: The International Action Network on Small Arms is the global network of civil society organisations working to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons (SALW). World attention is increasingly focused on the humanitarian impact of these weapons, and IANSA brings together the voices and activities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and concerned individuals across the world to prevent their deadly effects.
International Action Network on Small Arms
Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers: On 17 December 1997 four Norwegian organisations banded together to launch the Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT). NISAT partners belong to two of the world’s largest movements (the Red Cross/Crescent and the churches) and include two major research and foreign policy institutions. In addition, the initiative has the backing of the Norwegian government. NISAT’s aim is to combine the resources and networks of its partner organizations to help block the spread of small arms to areas where they are likely to produce conflict, violence and human rights abuses.
Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers
SmallArmsNet.org: SmallArmsNet is an information portal for groups and individuals working to contain the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Africa. An initiative of the Arms Management Programme (AMP) of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), it is an information hub for small arms and arms related issues affecting the continent. Due to the dynamics underlying the nature of managing weapons in Africa, AMP saw a need for a tool that will assist in stimulating and sustaining a much-needed debate around safety and security issues in Africa. SmallArmsNet aims to help organisations and individuals in the field who wish to build partnerships and share experiences and facilitate coalition building. It has been our strongest belief that information sharing and knowledge are vital in finding ways to address the proliferation of weapons in Africa.
SmallArmsNet.org
Small Arms Survey: The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It serves as the principal international source of public information on all aspects of small arms, and as a resource for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and activists. The project has an international staff with expertise in security studies, political science, international public policy, law, economics, development studies, conflict resolution, and sociology. The staff works closely with a worldwide network of researchers and partners.
Small Arms Survey
United Nations Small Arms Review Conference 2006: The United Nations Conference to review the implementation of the Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons ended on 7 July 2006 without agreeing on an outcome document. In spite of differences on follow-up details, the Conference did succeed in recalling the issue of small arms and light weapons to the attention of the international community, which clearly remains committed to the Programme of Action as the main framework for measures to curtail the illegal trade in these weapons.
United Nations Small Arms Review Conference 2006
UNICEF: “No Guns Please, We Are Children”; this booklet lays out the guiding principles in the campaign against small arms and light weapons and details UNICEF's efforts.
UNICEF-Small Arms
