Somali children playing.
The sect says unmarried girls should join the war against pro-government forces amid a Human Rights Watch report saying "for children in somalia, nowhere is safe".
Somali children playing.
Somalia's warring factions stand accused of drawing children into the ongoing conflict, many of them being used as child soldiers. Human Rights Watch ... see more »
Children in war-torn Somalia face horrific abuses, including forced recruitment as soldiers,forced marriage and rape, and attacks on their schools by ... see more »
Amnesty International’s report, In the Line of Fire: Somalia’s Children Under Attack, draws on more than 200 testimonies from Somali ... see more »
South and Central Somalia1 has been the scene of armed conflict since the collapse of Siad Barre’s government twenty years ago. Children born in ... see more »
A new Amnesty International report details how children are being recruited as child soldiers, denied access to education and killed or injured in ... see more »
The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict today deplored the rapid rise in the recruitment of children by armed groups in Somalia, as well as an emerging trend of ... Read more »
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