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Bill Would End U.S. Ban On Visas For Those With HIV
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:21:00 -0400
This week, the Senate approved a $48 billion extension of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Included in the bill was a provision that would lift a ban, in place since 1987, on visas for people with HIV.
The Evolving Role Of The Vice President
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0400
Scott Simon talks with vice presidential scholar Joel Goldstein about why and how the role of the vice president has changed.
Political Bloggers On Left, Right Descend On Austin
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0400
Political bloggers on both ends of the political spectrum are converging on Austin, Texas, for their respective annual conferences. Both liberal and conservative activists are trying to dominate this increasingly central forum of political discourse.

The Talk of the Town

Shape-shifter
Paul Goldberger Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Architects don’t usually hold elaborate press conferences to announce their new designs. But David Fisher is not a typical architect, and not only because he goes by the honorific “Dr.” Fisher, who was born in Tel Aviv fifty-nine years ago, is based in Florence, and believes that he has . . .
Isn’t It Romantic?
Rebecca Mead Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The plot of “The Romantics,” a new novel by Galt Niederhoffer, unfolds during the weekend wedding of Lila Hayes, a blond, beautiful, witty, and wealthy Yale graduate, and her former classmate Tom McDevon, a handsome, charming, social-climbing cipher. The book’s heroine--the clever, ill-at-ease, Brooklyn-dwelling Laura . . .
H-bloo On A-rod
Ben McGrath Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Shortly before his regular teatime, one day last week, the Yale literature professor Harold Bloom found an occasion to consider the plight of his beloved Yankees, as they approached the All Star break in third place, and of their star third baseman, Alex Rodriguez. “The poor fellow, you know he’s . . .

 

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Child and Young Adult Soldiers - Provides facts and information on child soldiers including international policy guidelines, methods and practices and relevant worldwide organisations.

Child rights information network: Armed Conflict - An information base for current news and documents on children in armed conflict including child soldiers.
Meta Description: [ The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) is a network of child rights organizations that work to improve the lives of children. Effective information exchange is facilitated through CRIN's website, email and newsletter service and regional information. ]

Child Soldier Use 2003 - Documents the deployment of children as combatants, to commit abuses against civilians, as sex slaves, forced labourers, messengers, informants and servants in continuing and newly erupting conflicts.

404 Child Soldiers - AIUSA's campaign for the rights of children under 18 who are serving in the military or who are abducted to help armed opposition groups.

Child Soldiers - American Friends Service Committee's web page that provides information, news, and analysis on child soldiers around the world.
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Child Soldiers Resources - Listings of and links to articles and organizations about the use of children and young people as soldiers armed conflicts worldwide.
Meta Description: [ Child Soldiers Resources. Listings of and links to articles, agencies, organizations and websites about the use of children and youth as soldiers in war and armed conflicts worldwide. ]

Children and War - International Committee of the Red Cross information on the fate of children caught up in the turmoil of conflict.Includes information on children, war and humanitarian law.
Meta Description: [ This section provides an overview of the issues relating to children in war, offering useful links to other relevant content including international humanitarian law, restoring family links, mine awareness and communication programmes for young people. ]

Children in Armed Conflict Unit: Child Soldiers - Offers a list of international laws and standards, articles, conferences and other information on the global use of child soldiers.
Meta Description: [ In addition to carrying out research, assessment visits and feasibility studies, and delivering training, the Children and Armed Conflict Unit combines expertise in international law with practical experience to design institutions, structures and systems that are responsive to the unique circums... ]

Children in Conflict: Child Soldiers - Gives details of projects around the world by SOS Children for child soldiers including current conflicts and a look back with ex-soldiers at past conflicts.
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Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers - Nonprofit activist group working to stop the recruitment of children in war.

404 Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: Global Report - The most recent and comprehensive study to date on the use of child soldiers globally.

404 Government of Canada: Child Soldiers - Provides details of the recruitment and use of children in adult wars in a question and answer format.
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500 How to Fight, How to Kill: Child Soldiers in Liberia - Documents the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war and offers recommendations on reintegrating these children into civil society.

Human Rights Watch: Stop the Use of Child Soldiers - Information and accounts of the use of child soldiers.

Impact of Armed Conflict on Children: Child Soldiers - Extract from the report of Graca Machel, expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.

International Labour Organization:The Reintegration of War-Affected Youth - The Experience of Mozambique - Publication on skills development and training for war-affected youth after civil war in Mozambique.

Radio Netherlands: Child Soldiers of Liberia - Provides information about the use of child soldiers in the Liberian civil war (1989-1997).
Meta Description: [ Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the Dutch international service, brings you news, current affairs and feature programmes on a variety of issues, including science, development, human rights, culture, the media, the Netherlands and Europe. This website provides an interactive vehicle for RNW radio pr... ]

Rädda Barnen: Child War Database - Save the Children Sweden's documentation centre on child soldiers.
Meta Description: [ Read about Save the Children s work with Training peacekeepers and military forces in child rights protection Girls and Conflict Forgotten casualties ]

Reluctant Recruits: Children and Adults Forcibly Recruited for Military Service in N. Kivu (Congo) - Human Rights Watch report (29 May 2001)points to the continued recruitment of children by the major Congolese rebel group.

404 Save the Children: Child Soldier Campaign - Provides brief analysis and information on the participation of children in modern day conflicts.
Meta Description: [ Save the Children is a child charity that works in the UK and worldwide. Find out how you can do volunteering, fundraising and make a donation. ]

SOS Children's Villages - Aid Orientated Towards The Future - Learn about this aid organization offering continuous care to former child soldiers ravaged by war in Uganda.
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The Centre for Defense Information's Children and Armed Conflict Project - Provides information (written and visual) on the global use of child soldiers.

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict: Child Soldiers - Website of the office of the UN Special Represntative of the Secretary -General for Children in Armed Conflict focusing on child soldiers.

UNICEF: Impact of Armed Conflict on Children - Full text of and other information surrounding the official report produced by Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary-General of the UN.
Meta Description: [ The United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF works for the survival, development and protection of children, guided in its programmes by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. ]

University of Essex: Children and Armed Conflict Unit - Provides up-to-date information, reports and documents on the impact of armed conflicts on children including child soldiers.
Meta Description: [ In addition to carrying out research, assessment visits and feasibility studies, and delivering training, the Children and Armed Conflict Unit combines expertise in international law with practical experience to design institutions, structures and systems that are responsive to the unique circums... ]

Using Children in Armed Conflict: A Legitimate African Tradition? - A monograph by T.W. Bennett on the history and efforts to criminalise recruitment of child soldiers, from the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa.

You'll Learn Not To Cry: Child Combatants in Colombia - More than 11,000 children fight in Colombia's armed conflict, one of the highest totals in the world. Both guerrilla and paramilitary forces rely on child combatants, who have committed atrocities and are even made to execute other children who try to desert.