Armed Conflict and Girl Child

Armed conflict and child health

Armed conflict has a major impact on child health throughout the world. One in six children worldwide lives in an area of armed conflict and civilians are more likely to die than soldiers as a result of the conflict. In stark contrast to the effect on children, the international arms trade results in huge profits for the large corporations involved in producing arms, weapons and munitions. Arme...

Child Soldiers in Armed Conflict

Child health in armed conflict: time to rethink.

6 Seftel HC. The rarity of coronary heart disease in South African blacks. The health of children is compromised by armed confl ict, complex political emergencies, political upheaval, and forced migration. Children and young people comprise a signifi cant proportion of the population in many countries, and often predominate in refugee or internally displaced settings. These environments expose ...

Children and Armed Conflict

Worldwide, children suffer a diverse and toxic array of effects of armed conflict, which increasingly are protracted and intermixed with problems such as terrorism. To support war-affected children, it is necessary to understand how children have been affected by war and to use appropriate conceptual analyses to inform the design of effective interventions. This paper introduces 2 thematic Spec...

Cradled by Conflict: Child Involvement with Armed Groups in Contemporary Conflict Executive Summary

Today, tens of thousands of children are thought to be involved with armed groups in conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Mali, Nigeria, Yemen, Central African Republic, Libya, and elsewhere. How and why do children become associated with non-state armed groups (NSAGs) in these conflicts, and what helps or hurts their chances of exiting from their ranks? This volume analyses the evidence for children’s mo...