This report compiles legally binding instruments, expressions of internationally accepted principles and norms (e.g. UN declarations, resolutions), and political commitments agreed at World Conferences, to reach certain standards and goals relevant to the rights of children in the area of armed conflict.

The document is part of a series collating the standards relevant to the realisation of children's rights to make them more easily accessible and more frequently used, with respect to the rights of girls, children in armed conflict, sexual exploitation of children, child labour.

Le sujet des rapports entre humanitaires et militaires est un sujet délicat, surtout en France, dans ce pays des origines du mouvement sans-frontiériste, inspirateur d'une part importante de ce que l'on pourrait aujourd'hui qualifier "d'humanitaire moderne ou contemporain". C'est un sujet sensible qui oppose des visions divergentes, qui bien souvent réveille des antagonismes et des débats passionnels, venant des acteurs différents travaillant sur les mêmes terrains.

Ce rapport, écrit suite à une mission

BLACE, Macedonia, May 1 (AFP) - A new wave of more than 7,000 Kosovo Albanians arrived in Macedonia Saturday, saying they had been forced out of their towns and villages in a Serb onslaught.

A spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said the refugees had crossed at three border posts.

Up to 5,000 people arrived at the Blace border post by train and bus, Paula Ghedini said. Some 1,000 crossed at Lojane and another 1,200 at Jazince.

Refugees arriving here said entire areas around Urosevac, Gnjilane and the Kosovo capital Pristina were being emptied

SKOPJE, May 1 (AFP) - Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy said Saturday his country is prepared to take in 5,000 Kosovo refugees, and would release 45 million Canadian dollars (31 million US dollars, 29.3 million euros) to help Macedonia deal with the Kosovo crisis.

"Canada has now agreed to receive 5,000 refugees from the camps in Macedonia on the request that we received from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)," Axworthy said after talks with his Macedonian counterpart Aleksandar Dimitrov.

Ottawa had previously said that Canada

DUSHANBE, May 1 (AFP) - The international contact group tasked with ensuring the implementation of the 1997 peace accords in Tajikistan called on all sides Friday to support the peace process to the end.

The coordinator of the contact group, United Nations special representative for Tajikistan Jan Kubis, said progress had been good so far, even if the government and opposition still considered themselves as former enemies rather than partners in peace.

He congratulated both sides on progress towards amending the constitution but stressed delays in implementing several

by Mohammad Bashir

KABUL, May 1 (AFP) - In Afghanistan, one of the most heavily mined countries on earth, farmers run an everyday risk of losing their limbs, cattle and even their lives as they work the land amid shifting frontlines, UN officials say.

UN figures show intensified demining has cut casualties by half, but at least 300 civilians including farmers are killed or maimed monthly by mines, said Latif Matin, head of the UN demining agency in Kabul.

Most adults fall victim while carrying out the vital tasks of herding and tending crops, as well as gathering

Introducción
El 6 de enero pasado fuerzas guerrilleras entraron en Freetown, capital de Sierra Leona, tomaron algunos edificios oficiales. Su objetivo declarado es liberar líder del Frente de Undiad Revolucionaria, Foday Sankoh, encarcelado y condenado a muerte. Esta demostración de fuerza indica que el control del gobierno sobre las bandas armadas que dominan casi la mitad del país es cada vez más débil.

La guerra en Sierra Leona se desarrolla entre el gobierno del presidente Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, por un lado, y la