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Lubanga Trial to Resume January 7
After a delay of more than five months, the International Criminal Court will resume the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo next week. The defense will present its case against the original charges of enlisting, conscripting and using child soldiers...
The Charles Taylor Trial Series – Part Two: Charles Taylor’s Use of Child Soldiers
Child Soldier Relief is creating a three part series on the Charles Taylor Trial; the second report in the series explores Charles Taylor’s use of child soldiers. The Council of Foreign Relations reports that in the late eighties and early...
New signatories to the Paris Commitments
Albania, Guinea, the Central African Republic, Eritrea, Jamaica, Liechtenstein, Panama and Senegal joined 76 other countries (totaling 84) by signing the Paris Commitments on Tuesday, an agreement that is designed to”strongly reaffirm our col...
CSR interviews playwright Sean Christopher Lewis
Child Soldier Relief’s Kate Davey caught up with playwright Sean Christopher Lewis in New York City this week about his new play The Aperture. Kate Davey (KD): One of the things that I was interested to know was what intrigued you about this topi...
Films and documentaries on child soldiers
The following is a compilation of films and documentaries relating to child soldiers and their stories. ‘Ezra’ A film by Nigerian-born director Newton Aduaka explores the psychological and social face of the problem, by telling the fictio...
Former child soldier fears returning home to Burma
For many former child soldiers the reintegration part of DDR (disarmament, rehabilitation and reintegration) can be the most traumatic. They are often no longer accepted by their communities and their families, and are sometimes feared or even revi...
Lubanga Trial: Week 23 in Review – PROSECUTION REST ITS CASE
On Monday the trial resumed with the testimony of Christine Peduto, a child protection specialist for the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who told the Court that Lubanga kidnapped a child and forced him into the UPC. I...
Lubanga Trial: Week 21 in Review
The trial resumed on Tuesday, June 30, as the witness, who recanted his testimony in the beginning of the trial and has now offered a new statement, which he says is true, requested that his new statement be kept confidential from the public and Luba...
Lubanga Trial: Week 18 in Review
On June 9, the witness who testified last week against Lubanga continued his testimony explaining to the defense why he had not originally mentioned to investigators that he had been a member of the UPC. “This story about the UPC, I will not tell i...
ICC focusing on child soldiers in Sudan
Chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court said last week that “he was looking closely at charges child soldiers have been used by militias in Sudan’s conflict-torn western Darfur region”. UNICEF has regularly reported on...
Lubanga Trial: Week 14 in Review
On Tuesday, Prof. Catherine Adamsbaum, a pediatric imagery expert invited by the Court to determine the ages of child soldiers in the UPC, testified that x-rays taken of former child soldiers indicate that they were 15 at the time of the x-ray in 200...
New Report: Conflict Minerals in Cell Phones Perpetuating Use of Child soldiers
The GrassRoots Reconciliation Group, a non-profit dedicated to bringing together “local community members and ex-child soldiers of the LRA who have escaped from rebel captivity,” has co-written a report with the Enough Project linking the...
The Child Act of Southern Sudan
This entry is by Kate Davey, our legal analyst at Child Soldier Relief. On April 9, Southern Sudan President Salva Kirr introduced the Child Act, which guarantees certain safeguards to children. The Act recognizes anyone under 18 as a child and requi...
Lubanga Trial: Week 11 in Review
Endre Vestvik, CRN/Hope In Action - A former child soldier in DR Congo. The trial resumed on Tuesday, April 7 with the testimony of psychologist Elisabeth Schauer who explained that many former child soldiers experience post traumatic stress disord...
Lubanga Trial: Week 10 in Review
Endre Vestvik, CRN/Hope In Action - A former child soldier in a rehabilitation center in Beni, North Kivu, DR Congo. This past week, Lubanga’s control over the UPC as a military was put in question by Witness 17, who stated that “the army a...
Lubanga Trial: Week 9 in Review
The following post was created by Kate Davey through sourcing from the reporting of Rachel Irwin and Meribeth Deen for lubangatrial.org. In the beginning of the week, two witnesses explained their experiences with the UPC politics and leadership. ...
Lubanga Trial: Week 8 in Review
The following post was created by Kate Davey through sourcing from the reporting of Rachel Irwin and Wairagala Wakabi for lubangatrial.org. The trial resumed with the testimony of the an unidentified witness who explained that the discrepancies in hi...
Weekly News Roundup… Child soldiers held by TMVP in Sri Lanka to be released…
Chief Minister Chandrakanthan of Sri Lanka has pledged that the “child soldier issue” relating to the children being held by the Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikai (TMVP) Party will be “concluded in the next three months.” Acc...
…Former girl soldier from Uganda now helps other child abductees
Grace Arach was “abducted by rebels, raped, coerced into marriage, forced to kill” and finally escaped when she was 23 years old from the Lord’s Resistance Army from northern Uganda, one of the worst offenders of using child soldier...
Lubanga Trial: Week 7 in Review
The following post was created by Kate Davey through sourcing from the reporting of Rachel Irwin and Wairagala Wakabi for lubangatrial.org. The Lubanga Trial was delayed from Monday, March 9 through Thursday, March 12 during which 5 new International...
Weekly News Roundup: March 11
Law and Order Episode being filmed at the UN will feature child soldiers… …”Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” was at the United Nations on Monday filming portions of an episode being shown on March 24. Spokeswoman Mar...
Lubanga Trial: Week 6 in Review
The following post was created by Kate Davey through sourcing from the reporting of Rachel Irwin for lubangatrial.org. During this week, two former child soldiers testified about their experiences in battle and how they have since been affected by...
Lubanga Trial: Week 5 in Review
The following post was created by Kate Davey through sourcing from the reporting of Rachel Irwin for lubangatrial.org. The trial resumed on Monday, February 23 with the cross-examination of the witness who testified last week that he had been cap...
Lubanga Trial: Week 4 in Review
The following post was created by Kate Davey through sourcing from the reporting of Rachel Irwin for lubangatrial.org. On Monday, February 16, the trial resumed with the testimony of an unnamed witness, who identified Lubanga in a video giving ...
Recap of Red Hand Day at the UN
Human Rights Watch reports on Red Hand Day, February 12, at the United Nations: At a ceremony in New York, the Secretary-General accepted a book of “red hands” created by youth from around the world as part of a year-long international Red Hand...
The Daily Collegian interviews Emmanuel Jal
Jal, rapper, writer, philanthropist and former child soldier from Sudan, just completed a memoir and was interviewed and videotaped by S.P. Sullivan and Dinah Gorelik from the Daily Collegian at UMASS. Here is the video of the interview. ...
Lubanga Trial: Week 3 in Review
The following post was created by Kate Davey through sourcing from the reporting of Rachel Irwin for lubangatrial.org. The trial resumed on February 9th with the final day of the cross-examination of the father of the child soldier who recanted his t...
“War Child”, a new memoir by Emmanuel Jal
Emmanuel Jal, rapper, former child soldier, philanthropist and spokesperson has just finished his most recent project, “War Child“; a memoir of his early childhood, conscription into the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army and subsequent...
Lubanga Trial: Second Week in Review
This entry is by Kate Davey, our legal analyst at Child Soldier Relief. According to Rachel Irwin of The Institute for War and Peace Reporting, the trial was delayed by a day by “unforeseen” circumstances when a Judge was unable to return...
Red Hand Day is rapidly approaching
Red Hand Day - on February 12 - is almost here. Check out the abundance of information online to get involved. Red Hand Day has the objective of collecting one million ‘red hands’ and presenting these to the UN on 12 February 2009, the sixth Re...
