Documents and Links

• Documents Brett, Rachel, 2002: Girl Soldiers: Challenging the Assumptions. Paper prepared for the Quaker United Nations Office:
  www.geneva.quno.info



• Coalition Stop the Child Soldiers, 2001: Global Report on child Soldiers:
  www.child-soldiers.org



• Convention on the Rights of the Child:
  www.unicef.org



• Gra�a Machel (2000), The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children - A critical review of progress made and obstacles encountered in increasing protection for war-affected children:
  www.war-affected-children.org or www.unifem.org



• Human Rights Watch's Map of the Global Use of Child Soldiers:
  www.hrw.org



• ILO Convention 182:
  www.ilo.org



• List of countries where child soldiers are being used:
  www.hrw.org



• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000:
  www.unhchr.ch



• Report of the Secretary General on children and armed conflict:
  www.reliefweb.int



• Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 2002:
  www.reliefweb.int or www.un.int



• Report to the United Nations General Assembly by the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict:
  www.un.org



• The African Charter on Rights and Welfare of the Child:
  www.africa-union.org



• UNICEF publications on matters pertaining to children and war:
  www.unicef.org



• UN Security Council Resolution 1261, 1999:
  www.child-soldiers.org



• UN Security Council Resolution 1265, 1999:
  www.un.int



• UN Security Council Resolution 1314, 2000:
  www.un.org



• UN Security Council Resolution 1325, 2000:
  www.un.org



• UN Security Council Resolution 1379, 2001, on Children and armed conflict:
  http://usembassy.state.gov/

• BBC's info site on "Children of Conflict":
  www.bbc.co.uk



• Canadian site on war-affected children (in French and English):
  www.waraffectedchildren.gc.ca



• Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers:
  www.child-soldiers.org



• Crimes of War:
  www.crimesofwar.org



• Giving voice to children of war: A Sierra Leonean site where former child solders express their experiences through writings, drawings and music:
  www.childsoldiers.org



• Human Rights Watch:
  www.hrw.org



• International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA):
  www.iansa.org



• Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for children in armed conflict:
  www.un.org



• Save the Children Foundation:
  www.savethechildren.org



• The International Federation of Terre des homes (IFTDH):
  www.terredeshommes.org