The reality of Colombia’s child soldiers
Colombia’s Ministry of Defense has begun new investigations into the recruitment of child soldiers in the internal conflict that has waged for 50 years.
Colombia’s Ministry of Defense has begun new investigations into the recruitment of child soldiers in the internal conflict that has waged for 50 years.
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, vowed on Thursday to immediately and indefinitely ban the recruitment of child soldiers under 17.
Illegal armed groups in Colombia have recruited 119 minors in 2014, the country’s Ombudsman’s Office said on Tuesday.
Almost half of the approximately 8,000 fighters in the FARC were recruited by the rebel group as minors, according to a university study on Colombia’s largest guerrilla organization.
A coalition of human rights NGOs presented a shadow report to the United Nations Child Rights Convention on Wednesday, outlining a story of abuse due to Colombia’s ongoing socio-political unrest.
Demobilized female rebels, many of whom were forced into guerrilla groups against their will, are now searching for the children they were made to abandon, according to BBC Mundo reports.
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