In Colombia, guerrilla groups ... International standards prohibiting the use of child soldiers remained woefully inadequate. A U.N. working group mandated to raise the minimum age for recruitment ...

One Colombian soldier is dead and another one is injured following clashes with guerrilla dissidents in a coca-growing region ...

2024 marked the thirty-fifth anniversary of a UN commitment to protect children from being recruited as soldiers ... UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was hailed as a historic agreement ...

The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs; the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of International Development; and the Honourable Bill ...

Colombia vowed "war" against left-wing guerrillas Monday, declaring a state of emergency and deploying thousands of soldiers to contain a wave of violence that has killed more than 100 people and ...

More than 80 people have been killed in just three days in northeast Colombia following failed ... The army said more than 5,000 soldiers have been sent to the region to “reinforce security”.

Soldiers from the Venezuelan national guard have left their posts ahead of an opposition-led effort to bring aid into the country, Colombia's migration agency said. In a separate development ...

Soldiers deploy in Tibu, Colombia, on January 20 amid an uptick in violence between armed groups in the region [Fernando Vergara/AP Photo] Published On 24 Jan 202524 Jan 2025 Colombia’s ...

In Colombia, national coalition members held ... including on the use of child soldiers during the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea; deaths of underage military conscripts in Paraguay ...