Most of the victims are obviously boys. Listen to child soldiers, wounded, lost and working children tell their stories in sound files.

Provides facts and information on child soldiers including international policy guidelines, methods and practices and relevant worldwide organisations.

An information base for current news and documents on children in armed conflict including child soldiers.

Documents the deployment of children as combatants, to commit abuses against civilians, as sex slaves, forced labourers, messengers, informants and servants in continuing and newly erupting conflicts.

AIUSA's campaign for the rights of children under 18 who are serving in the military or who are abducted to help armed opposition groups.

American Friends Service Committee's web page that provides information, news, and analysis on child soldiers around the world.

Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide.

International Committee of the Red Cross information on the fate of children caught up in the turmoil of conflict.Includes information on children, war and humanitarian law.

Offers a list of international laws and standards, articles, conferences and other information on the global use of child soldiers.

Gives details of projects around the world by SOS Children for child soldiers including current conflicts and a look back with ex-soldiers at past conflicts.

Nonprofit activist group working to stop the recruitment of children in war.

The most recent and comprehensive study to date on the use of child soldiers globally.

Recommends relevant publications, provides articles and information about child soldiers.

Provides details of the recruitment and use of children in adult wars in a question and answer format.

Documents the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war and offers recommendations on reintegrating these children into civil society.

Information and accounts of the use of child soldiers.

Extract from the report of Graca Machel, expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.

Publication on skills development and training for war-affected youth after civil war in Mozambique.

Focuses particularly on the use of children in the Middle East conflict.The site consists of reports, factsheets, articles and a petition against the use child combatants.

Save the Children Sweden's documentation centre on child soldiers.

Provides information about the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war (1989-1997).

Human Rights Watch report (29 May 2001)points to the continued recruitment of children by the major Congolese rebel group.

Provides brief analysis and information on the participation of children in modern day conflicts.

Learn about this aid organization offering continuous care to former child soldiers ravaged by war in Uganda.

Provides information (written and visual) on the global use of child soldiers.

Website of the office of the UN Special Represntative of the Secretary -General for Children in Armed Conflict focusing on child soldiers.

Full text of and other information surrounding the official report produced by Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.

Provides up-to-date information, reports and documents on the impact of armed conflicts on children including child soldiers.

A monograph by T.W. Bennett on the history and efforts to criminalise recruitment of child soldiers, from the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa.

More than 11,000 children fight in Colombia's armed conflict, one of the highest totals in the world. Both guerrilla and paramilitary forces rely on child combatants, who have committed atrocities and are even made to execute other children who try to desert.