No one knew what the lives of former child soldiers might look like. Perhaps they would become “an entire lost generation,” as the prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone described them ...

During Sierra Leone’s civil war ... Abubakar, a 17 year old RUF child soldier demobilized in March 2000 was abducted outside the demobilization camp and forced to rejoin the RUF later that ...

During Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war, it is estimated that there were: 2.6 million people displaced, 70,000 casualties, and upwards of 48,000 male and female children associated with armed groups ...

In Sierra Leone, he received commitments from the ... International standards prohibiting the use of child soldiers remained woefully inadequate. A U.N. working group mandated to raise the minimum ...

Between 2005 and 2022, more than 105,000 children are estimated to have been recruited and used in armed conflict around the ...

Living in extreme poverty, with grave threats to their survival, health, education and protection, children in Sierra Leone need your help. 1 child in 10 dies before their 5th birthday, 15 times the U ...