Sudan: Unamid Workshop Raises Awareness of Children in Armed Conflict

press release

The African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), continuing its efforts to prevent the use of children in armed movements, conducted a workshop on 20 September in El Fasher, North Darfur, for more than 50 field commanders of the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM).

UNAMID held the one-day workshop to discuss children in armed conflicts and determine concrete steps to implement the formal action plan submitted by LJM to the United Nations on 10 May 2012. The signed plan indicates the Movement's commitment not to recruit or use child soldiers.

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