... for vulnerable populations such as child soldiers. ¹⁷ Epigenetic age clocks could also be used to determine the (chronological) age of presumed child soldiers in conflict zones to protect their rights, health, and well-being. ¹⁵ Many of the available anatomical tests to help determine...

...Christelle Molima Bameka ABSTRACT ^∞ A controversial approach characterizes international law and policy on children affected by armed conflict: it is much more concerned with child soldiers’ victimization than with their victims’ situation. This approach leads to (1) the prioritization...

...) for Children and Armed Conflict, the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions, and the UN Mine Action Service. The views presented in this review essay are solely those of the author in her personal capacity and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations. Child Soldiers International...

... Council resolution 1612 (2005) regarding violations against children in the context of armed conflict. She also reflects on some of the challenges of dealing directly with armed groups who recruit and use child soldiers, and on a range of other issues with which her office is concerned – including...

... child soldiers 1612 monitoring and reporting mechanism Following its establishment, a MRM in-country task force prepares an annual report based on its monitoring of the six grave violations mentioned above. The role of UNICEF and NGOs in the task force varies from country to country...

... conflict. The text of the Deed of Commitment is included as an appendix. child soldiers engagement with armed groups implementation and monitoring international humanitarian law protection of civilians The initiative by UNICEF to explore whether the deed of commitment model could achieve positive...

... University Press. All rights reserved. 2010 Abstract The international consensus that child soldiering must end does not extend to agreement over best practices for helping demobilized children to reconcile with their communities and integrate meaningfully into them. Based on experience in an unusually...

... are discussed. child soldiers empowerment girl mothers human rights participatory action research This article explores current understandings of empowerment and human rights and the interplay between these two concepts. Drawing on stories that have emerged from a multi-year participatory action research...

... as part of efforts to prosecute political leaders and senior military figures responsible for war crimes. In particular, it looks at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and describes its conviction of war criminals for the recruitment of child soldiers as an important human rights milestone...

... numerous examples and suggestive analyses, not least some which problematise the very concept of “childhood”, the chapter proposes that some fundamental categories of just war theory may be significantly disrupted once we think clearly about the role and status of children (for example, child soldiers...

... considered the responsibility of adults. 63 Child soldiers, too, are presented as having grown old before their time. Those in modern-d­ ay Angola and Mozambique are said to defy . . . established and generally accepted norms and assume roles that under normal circumstances would be filled by adults. 64...

... examples of work in Sub-Saharan Africa and with refugees in the US, we conclude with a series of recommendations for advancing sensitive research practices with vulnerable populations. culture vulnerable populations community-based participatory research refugees child soldiers children affected...

...This chapter describes the adverse consequences of war and militarism on children, including physical impacts, such as injury, illness, disability, and malnutrition, and psychological impacts, spiritual and moral impacts, and social and cultural impacts. It discusses child soldiers and other ways...

... world and illustrates how universalizing discourses are transformed and disrupted in practice. agency child protection discourses child soldiers Denov M Drumbl M ‘innocent children’ peace and peacebuilding Tabak J United Nations UN childhood definitions of definitions of childhood...

... and also affect children whose parents are deployed in military service. Children forced or coerced into being child soldiers suffer multiple physical and mental health problems. In addition, economic sanctions adversely affect children’s health. Physicians and other health workers can help to address...

... Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service LIRS SIJ Special Immigrant Juvenile Special Immigrant Juvenile SIJ Akallo Grace Girl Soldier A Story of Hope for Northern Ugandan Children Beah Ismail A Long Way Gone Burundi child soldiers in child soldiers Colombia...

... available to them may impose a requirement of restraint in fighting against them. It concludes by discussing the moral status of child soldiers. Anscombe Elizabeth criminal law excuse liability proportionality punishment self‐defense desert lesser‐evil justification justification culpability...

..., historians are more interested in explaining why particular aspects of youth culture are perceived as problems. The chapter then explores how histories of youth culture can be divided into several categories of inquiry: juvenile delinquency, child labor, child soldiers, youth activism, girlhood, and popular...

..., child rights advocates have helped shape the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and international treaties addressing child labor and child soldiers, thereby influencing policies and practices related to education, child marriage, corporal punishment, sexual exploitation, and violence against...