Somali children playing.
Al-Shabaab Calls Girls to Join Somali War
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".
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20 February 2012
Somalia: Factions Accused of Using Children
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- Peter Greste/Al Jazeera English
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- Peter Greste/Al Jazeera English
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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 »
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21 February 2012
No Place for Children
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- Human Rights Watch
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- Human Rights Watch
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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 »
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20 July 2011
Testimonies from "In The Line of Fire"
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- Amnesty International
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Amnesty International’s report, In the Line of Fire: Somalia’s Children Under Attack, draws on more than 200 testimonies from Somali ... see more »
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20 July 2011
In the line of fire: Somalia's children under attack
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- Amnesty International
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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 »
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20 July 2011
Somalia's Children Under Attack
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- Amnesty International
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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 »
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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 »
