250,000 Children Exploited By Armed Forces Across The World -- The National
NEW YORK // Southern Sudan’s rebel groups are not the only forces in Africa’s largest nation to send children into battle, the UN’s expert on underage soldiers said, with the government and Darfur militias also known to use child fighters.
Radhika Coomaraswamy, the UN chief’s special representative for children and armed conflict, said all parties, including the government, are on the list of those using child soldiers, following her field mission to Sudan from November 15-23.
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The convention, the most-supported human rights treaty in the world, has heralded an era in which the number of deaths of children younger than 5 declined by 28 per cent from about 12.5 million in 1990 to an estimated 8.8 million last year.
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