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  • Uganda: Landmine Victims Struggle to Reintegrate 5 Sep 2008 17:08 GMT
    ... Posted to the web 5 September 2008 The ... has just emerged from two decades of armed conflict between the LRA and the government. The ... had been provided, and 30 percent were children. "The cumulative number of mine casualties in ...

  • Why the UN needs to reform, meaningfully, the way it handles environmental issues 5 Sep 2008 14:06 GMT
    ... 10:26 GMT, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 11:26 UK ... lifestyles, and (d) have no or fewer children. Do you think the populous are capable of this? ... impoverished, diseased, and desperate, there will be armed conflicts. What started as a local supply versus ...

  • India: All Sides Using Children in Chhattisgarh Conflict 5 Sep 2008 04:54 GMT
    ... parties to the Chhattisgarh conflict have used children in armed operations. The Naxalites, a Maoist ... Judum camp residents, police, SPOs, and former child Naxalites in Chhattisgarh state. Human Rights Watch ... in 2005] to become SPOs – both boys and girls. I live in Bhairamgarh and ...

  • Uganda: Former LRA Captives in Lango Decry Stigmatisation 5 Sep 2008 04:47 GMT
    ... Posted to the web 4 September 2008 Formerly abducted children in Lango sub-region have appealed to communities ... into communities. "Avoid stigmatising children affected by armed conflict. Accept us and give us parental and ...

  • Georgia/Russian Federation: ICRC shifts focus to long-term recovery 5 Sep 2008 04:31 GMT
    ... Georgia/Russian Federation: ICRC shifts focus to long-term recovery ... had left, mainly the men, women and children. A lack of public transportation is preventing ... leading the Movement's humanitarian response to the armed conflict, in consultation and cooperation with the National ...

  • Amnesty calls for impartial, international inve... 4 Sep 2008 22:30 GMT
    ... human rights in the context of the armed conflict between government forces, the Liberation Tigers of ... since late 2005; nine civilians including two children were reported to have been killed over ... to fulfil its pledge to release all child soldiers. The Karuna faction, a breakaway group ...

  • Ex-combatants from Basilan find good fortune 4 Sep 2008 18:56 GMT
    ... He then brings the boat's twin engines to life ... in 1996 put an end to the armed conflict, allowing Undin to return to his family ... able to renovate his house, send his children to school, and help fund improvements to ...

  • SAfrican writer discusses Angola's upcoming parliamentary elections 4 Sep 2008 10:36 GMT
    ... Sep 03, 2008 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) -- [Commentary ... UN estimates that one in four Angolan children die before their fifth birthday. Further, that ... that elections could once again result in armed conflict. "The 2008 elections will be the first ...

  • Chad: UN - Urge Govt to Free Child Soldiers [press release] 4 Sep 2008 07:34 GMT
    ... 2008 The Security Council working group on children and armed conflict should urge Chad to take measurable, concrete ... end to the recruitment and use of child soldiers a year earlier, in September 2007, ...


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