Child Soldiers
- 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.
- http://www.amnestyusa.org/Children/Child_Soldiers/page.do?id=1051047&n1=3&n2=78&n3=1270

The Centre for Defense Information's Children and Armed Conflict Project
- Provides information (written and visual) on the global use of child soldiers.
- http://www.cdi.org/program/index.cfm?ProgramID=21

BBC News - Child Soldiers: Children of Conflict
- Most of the victims are obviously boys. Listen to child soldiers, wounded, lost and working children tell their stories in sound files.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconflict/soldier.shtml

Children in Conflict: 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.
- http://child-soldier.org

Rädda Barnen: Child War Database
- Save the Children Sweden's documentation centre on child soldiers.
- http://www.rb.se/eng/Programme/Childreninarmed/Childsoldiers/

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict: Child Soldiers
- Website of the office of the UN Special Represntative of the Secretary -General for Children in Armed Conflict focusing on child soldiers.
- http://www.un.org/special-rep/children-armed-conflict/English/ChildSoldiers.html

Child Soldier Use 2003
- 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.
- http://hrw.org/reports/2004/childsoldiers0104/

How to Fight, How to Kill: Child Soldiers in Liberia
- Documents the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war and offers recommendations on reintegrating these children into civil society.
- http://hrw.org/reports/2004/liberia0204/

SOS Children's Villages - Aid Orientated Towards The Future
- Learn about this aid organization offering continuous care to former child soldiers ravaged by war in Uganda.
- http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/cgi-bin/sos/jsp/retrieve.do?lang=en&site=ZZ&nav=5.3&cat=%2F5.3.4_optional_sub_4&ed=27082

You'll Learn Not To Cry: Child Combatants in Colombia
- 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 des
- http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/colombia0903/

Using Children in Armed Conflict: A Legitimate African Tradition?
- 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.
- http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No32/Contents.html

Children in Armed Conflict Unit: Child Soldiers
- Offers a list of international laws and standards, articles, conferences and other information on the global use of child soldiers.
- http://www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/Issues/Future/menu/childsoldiers.htm

International Labour Organization:The Reintegration of War-Affected Youth - The Experience of Mozambique
- Publication on skills development and training for war-affected youth after civil war in Mozambique.
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/skills/training/publ/pub13.htm

Radio Netherlands: Child Soldiers of Liberia
- Provides information about the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war (1989-1997).
- http://www.rnw.nl/en/liberia/index.html

Child Soldiers Resources
- Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide.
- http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_soldiers.html

Reluctant Recruits: Children and Adults Forcibly Recruited for Military Service in N. Kivu (Congo)
- Human Rights Watch report (29 May 2001)points to the continued recruitment of children by the major Congolese rebel group.
- http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/drc3/

University of Essex: Children and Armed Conflict Unit
- Provides up-to-date information, reports and documents on the impact of armed conflicts on children including child soldiers.
- http://www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/default.htm

UNICEF: Impact of Armed Conflict on Children
- Full text of and other information surrounding the official report produced by Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.
- http://www.unicef.org/graca/

Child rights information network: Armed Conflict
- An information base for current news and documents on children in armed conflict including child soldiers.
- http://www.crin.org/themes/viewTheme.asp?ID=11&name=Armed+conflict

Human Rights Watch: Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
- Information and accounts of the use of child soldiers.
- http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
- Nonprofit activist group working to stop the recruitment of children in war.
- http://www.child-soldiers.org/

Children and War
- 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.
- http://www.icrc.org/eng/children

Impact of Armed Conflict on Children: Child Soldiers
- Extract from the report of Graca Machel, expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.
- http://www.un.org/rights/concerns.htm#soldiers