By Noel King Muhazi, Rwanda 10 November 2007 Tens of thousands of children have been abducted and forced into service by a myriad of armed groups in Congo's chaotic eastern provinces. Many of them are Rwandan boys who were born in Congo following the...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 30 October 2007 Chadian authorities are charging 16 Europeans and two Chadians of being complicit or involved with kidnapping in relation to an effort by a French charity to fly more than a hundred children from Chad to France. F...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 22 October 2007 It has been one year since laws went into effect in India banning children from working in homes, hotels and restaurants. But as VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delhi, there appears to be litt...
By Malcolm Brown Washington 10 October 2007 From harrowing experiences as a child soldier to international recognition as a hip-hop artist, Emmanuel Jal's life has followed an extraordinary path. At the age of seven, he was taken away to fight with...
By Ruth Reader Washington, D.C. 28 June 2007 Children from around the world attended a special festival in Washington this past weekend to celebrate children's involvement in the arts. The Art Olympiad festival -- held in front of the U.S. Capitol -...
By Phuong Tran Habile, Chad 15 May 2007 Just this past week, Chad's government admitted there are child soldiers in its army. But schools along the troubled eastern zone, near Sudan, have long known that, when a child suddenly disappears from the cla...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 24 April 2007 U.S. lawmakers are considering legislation aimed at cracking down on the recruitment and use of child soldiers by other countries. A former child soldier in Sierra Leone's civil war testified before a Senate...
By David McAlary Washington 20 April 2007 An international human rights group says child soldiers as young as 13 are serving in the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Human Rights Watch is urging the Congolese government to release the estimat...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 22 March 2007 On a map, Sierra Leone is separated from New York City by nearly 7,000 kilometers. For one young Sierra Leonean man now living in New York, the journey involved much more than traveling the physical distance....
By Alan Silverman Holywood 13 January 2007 A child's fairy tale fantasy provides her refuge from the ravages of war in a vividly imaginative film by Mexican-born writer-director Guillermo del Toro. Alan Silverman has a look at Pan's Labyrinth. Ivana...