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Liberia: The Real Danger is Not Spending Enough

Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Rape, Massacre, Child Soldiers, Africom, Guinea, War, Ruthie Ackerman, Violence, Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Education, Military, Conflict, Colonel Moussa Dadis Camara, Job, Ceasefire, World News

Conservatives will ask why during an economic recession should we spend even more money in Liberia. My answer: for the security of Liberia and the entire West African region.

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Think It's Over Once You're 60? Check Out The Purpose Prize

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, Therapy, Purpose Prize, Charity, Child Soldiers, War, The Giving Life, 9/11, New Radicals, Psychology, Uganda, September 11th, Julia Moulden, Peter-C-Alderman-Foundation, Living News

This is the true story of a couple of ordinary Americans who thought, once they turned 60, that life would be uneventful. Instead, they've just won a prestigious award that honours their world-changing work.

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U.N. Ambassador Kohona: Sri Lanka Refugee Situation Improving

Jim Luce | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Australia, Ltte, Land Mines, Washington, Tamils, United Nations, Sri Lanka, U.N. Security General, Bosnia, Dr. Palitha Kohona, IDP Tourism, Sri Lankan Refugee, Ban-Ki Moon, Ethel Grodzins Romm, Princess Diana, Sri Lankan Ambassador, Child Soldiers, European Union, Idps, Sri Lankan Ambassador to the U.N., Suicide Bombers, Monsoon, Japan, Afghani-Pakistani Border, International Red Cross, Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary, Colombo, India, Internally Displaced People, Rwanda, Ngo’s, Balkanization, World News

Fourteen years after the civil war in Rwanda, refugees are still living in mud huts. In Bosnia, following Balkanization, people lacked heat and ...

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Meeting a Girl FARC Guerrilla in Bogotá

Karin Badt | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Farc, Programa De Atencion Humanitario Al Desmovilizado, Demobilization Program, Bogotá, Guerillas, Colombia, Child Soldiers, World News

My image of a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla was not a small-framed pretty girl in a jean-jacket, hands bangled in silver rings and white-sparkling nail-polish.

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World Humanitarian Day: Life 'On the Ground'

World Vision | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Emergency Responders, World Vision, World-Humanitarian-Day, Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, Mozambique Floods, Gaza, Democratic Republic of Congo, Maize, Child Soldiers, Humanitarian Crisis, Pakistan Earthquake, Humanitarian Aid, Child Soldiers Masisi, World News

I've met amazing people, who in the midst of disaster themselves, give the little they have. In Pakistan we met a man who took 30 displaced strangers into his house and looked after them until his own finances ran out.

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UN To 'Name And Shame' Countries That Kill Children In War

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 09.04.2009 | World

Read More: Claude Heller, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, U.N., Ban Ki-Moon, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Children in Armed Conflict, U.N. Security Council, World News

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to name and shame countries and insurgents groups engaged in conflicts that...

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Italy Hosts Child Soldiers Symposium

Jim Luce | Posted 07.28.2009 | World

Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Tamil Tigers, Giulio Terzi, Sri Lanka, Paris Principles, Iraq, Italian Government, Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, Rome Symposium on Children and Armed Conflict, U.N. Resolution 1612, Ban Ki-Moon, Warlords, U.N. International School, Sexual Violence, Early Mortality, Francis Deng, Uganda, Suicide Bombing, N.Y.U. School of Law, Poverty, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rome, Unicef, U.N. Security Council”, Child Soldiers, International Save the Children Alliance, Kofi Annan, Save the Children Italy, Radhika Coomaraswamy, u.n. Human Rights Council, Education, Prevention of Genocide, Columbia University, Illiteracy, U.N. General Assembly, Harvard University, Child Rape, Health, Colombo, Innocenti Research Centre, Yale University, United Nations’ Millennium Declaration, Afghanistan, Human Rights, Special Representative of the Secretary General, Special Court for Sierra Leone, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Explaining the Tamil Tigers, Children and Young People Affected by Armed Conflict, World News

With the changing nature of armed conflict, the impact of war on children and young people has become more brutal than ever.

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Stopping One Man to Save Thousands

John Prendergast | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Sexual Violence, Lra, Icc, U.S. Military, Africa, Children, Child Soldiers, Obama Administration, International Criminal Court, Lord's Resistance Army, Foreign Affairs, Central Africa, World News

For more than two decades, the United States has attempted piecemeal solutions to addressing the scourge of the Lord's Resistance Army.

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The Dance of the Child Soldiers

John Feffer | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Dance, Sierra Leone, Child Soldiers, Africa, World News

David Alan Harris, a choreographer and therapist, tells the riveting story of how young men in Sierra Leone, who show no outward emotion about their past atrocities, slowly come to terms with their experiences -- through dance.

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In Sri Lanka: Explaining the Tamil Tigers

Jim Luce | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: K.P., Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Bank of Tamileelam, Ban Ki-Moo, Abu Sayyaf Group, Sri Lanka, Palestine Liberation Organization, London, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan Air Force, Suicide Bombing, “Little Brown Brothers”, Racism, Drug Trafficking, The U.N. Security Council, Ethnic Cleansing, New York, Geneva, Jemaah Islamiya, Colombo, P.L.O., India, Times of India, Fight Against Terrorism, Gunrunning., LTTE Sea Tigers, Empty Nest Syndrome, Political Assassination, Tamil Tigers, Human Smuggling, Tamil Diaspora, Ltte, Teddy Roosevelt, Toronto, Switzerland, Washington, Jaffna, Osama Bin Laden, Jane's Information Group, United Nations, Norway, Tamil Nadu, Milf, Black Tigers, Guantanamo Bay, Child Soldiers, Refugee Status, Terrorist Organization, European Union, F.B.I., Amin Awad, Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden, Abu Ghraib, Tsunami, Rajiv Gandhi, Pol Pot, Oslo, Sri Lankan Parliament, Afghanistan, Human Rights Abuse, Sea Piracy, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Asg, Tamil-Canadians, World News

The Sri Lankan government has battled the Tamil Tigers on two fronts for almost three decades: on the battlefield and in the arena of world opinion. No one thought they could win militarily, but they did.

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In Sri Lanka: A Look at the Refugee Camp

Jim Luce | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Heath Shuler, Internally Displaced Persons, Children, Terrorism, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Armed Forces, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, U.S. Congress, Tamil Refugees, International Red Cross, Colombo, Refugee Camp, Hurricane Katrina, Chef’s Guild of Sri Lanka, Tamil Civilians, World News

The Sri Lankan government has moved mountains to accommodate more than a quarter million displaced people since the war ended ten days ago. But they have many more to move.

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In Sri Lanka: Reconciliation and Reconstruction

Jim Luce | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Sri Lanka, European Union, Times of London, China, Human Shields, Japan, Tamil, Tsunami, Sri Lankan Military, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sinhala, Orphans International Worldwide, Reconciliation, World News

Sri Lanka is now focused on the "3 R's:" Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation. European leaders need to stop lecturing and start helping.

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Meticulous and Marching - The Rwandan Exit from Congo

Sean Carasso | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Fdlr, Falling Whistles, Democratic Republic of Congo, Child Soldiers, Rwanda, Congo, World News

Today was a wild day and one I don't think I'll soon forget. Woke up at sunrise to head, once again, to the border and attempt to gain entrance. The...

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Child Soldiers on Film: "Kassim the Dream" (I)

Karin Badt | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, Mamdani, Museveni, Child Soldiers, Kassim the Dream, Trauma and Theater, Lords-Resistance-Army, Joseph Kony, Save the Children, Kampala, Gulu, World News

The situation of child soldiers remains the same: and the finger points back -- many argue -- at Museveni himself.

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Child Soldiers on Film: ""Johnny Mad Dog" (II)

Karin Badt | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Jean-Stephane Sauvaire, Child Soldiers, Johnny Mad Dog, Liberia, Istanbul-International-Film-Festival, World News

The director's commitment to these children -- both on-screen and off -- is evident, both in his craft and action: proceeds from the film will be used to help the child soldier actors rehabilitate themselves.

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Tamil Tigers Recruit Child Soldiers As Young As 11

Sydney Morning Herald | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Sri Lankan Army, Tamil Tigers, Child Soldiers, Foreign Affairs, Tamil Tiger Rebels, Sri Lanka, Child Soldier, Sri Lanka Civil War, Sri Lanka Rebels, Tamil, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Tamil Tiger Child Soldier, Tamil Tigers Suicide Bomber, Sri Lanka Civilian Deaths, Advocacy, World News

It is hard to imagine Christine* in combat. But the diminutive 14-year-old with a cheeky smile and dancing eyes knows how to handle a Kalashnikov and ...

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Child Soldier Recruitment Prevention A Hopeless Cause For UN

Inter Press Service | Thalif Deen | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Child Soldiers, Foreign Affairs, Burma, United Nations, Middle East, Taliban, Congo, Philippines, Child Soldier, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Africa, Byanmar, Taliban Child Soldier, Somalia, Uganda, Asia, Iraq, Child Soldier Recruitment, Advocacy, World News

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually helpless as an increasing number of armed groups - described as "non-state actor...

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Stand in Solidarity with Child Soldiers

Pete Wentz | Posted 05.24.2009 | World

Read More: Youth Movement, Invisible Children, Youth, Pete Wentz, Child Soldiers, World News

The reality of child soldiers is an issue I could either continue to ignore because it isn't in front of me, or I could forget about myself and do something. I was losing sleep, I had to go to Africa.

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Emmanuel Jal, Child Soldier Turned Activist Rapper, Uses Music To Fight

Modiba | Posted 04.01.2009 | World

Read More: Global Music Corner, World Music Corner, Skirt Too Long, Sudan, Emmanuel Jal, Child Soldiers, Gua Africa, Sudan People's Liberation Army, War Child, No Bling, Sudanese Civil War, 50 Cent, World News

This is HuffPost World's regular feature that highlights interesting musicians and musical trends around the world. Know of a great musician doing g...

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Child Soldiers Used In 15 Countries: Report

United Press International | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

Read More: Child Soldiers, Human Rights, Ban Against Child Soldiers, Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Conscription, Military Leaders, UN Security Council, Red Hand Day Campaign, Civil Rights, World News

Child soldiers fight for 15 countries or territories, including some that agreed to ban conscription of people under age 18, a U.S. rights group said ...

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Video for Change: The ICC and Justice for Child Soldiers in the DRC

Yvette Alberdingk Thijm | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

The International Criminal Court commenced its first trial Jan 26, and I am inspired by the myriad and unprecedented ways video and technology have been incorporated into the proceedings.

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Innocence Lost: The Child Soldiers Forced To Murder

The Independent | Posted 01.06.2009 | World

Read More: Uganda, Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, African Child Soldiers, Child Soldiers, Africa, World News

The first time I met Ojok Charles it was August 2006. I was travelling in central and east Africa, specifically Uganda, on the border with the Democra...

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The Power Of The GuluWalk

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.04.2008 | Living

How was your week? Mine started off with a client meeting, talking with a CEO about what he wanted to see in a speech I'm writing for him. We had a l...

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