An open call to all UN Member States to stop fuelling the crisis in Gaza and avert further humanitarian catastrophe and loss of civilian life. We, the undersigned organisations, call on all States to...
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Open letter to Secretary General Guterres on the protection of children in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territory
Dear SG Guterres, We are alarmed by the escalation of hostilities in Israel and Gaza, and its unconscionable toll on Israeli and Palestinian children. As you noted on November 6, Gaza is becoming a...
Yemen + 2 more
Open letter to the Secretary-General on the 2020 Annual Report on children and armed conflict
June 22, 2020 – In an open letter to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, 24 nongovernmental organizations, including Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, express their disappointment with the...
Open letter calling for a complete and accurate list of perpetrators, 24 May 2019
Dear Mr. Secretary-General, We are writing regarding your annual report on children and armed conflict and its annexes. As a diverse group of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working on...
An open letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for the children of Yemen
by Diana Quick ChildFund Alliance, together with 23 other civil society organizations, wrote an open letter regarding the situation of children in Yemen to UN Secretary-General António Guterres,...
World + 12 more
Implementing the Guidelines: a Toolkit to Guide Understanding and Implementation of the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict [EN/AR]
(March 28, 2017 – Buenos Aires) The Second International Conference on Safe Schools opening in Buenos Aires today will contribute to better safeguarding education in war-zones, said the Global...
UN: Return Saudi-led Coalition to ‘List of Shame’
Secretary-General’s De-Listing Opens Door to Political Manipulation (New York) – The United Nations secretary-general should immediately return the Saudi-led coalition to his “list of shame” for...
World + 2 more
Understanding the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers as an Early Warning Indicator
We are living in an era in which the level of human suffering as a result of intra-state conflict seems to be escalating exponentially. The essential challenge remains, how to create the political...
The Other Roles Child Soldiers Carry Out in War
HALIFAX, N.S. (February 12, 2015)– On Red Hand Day, the international day against the use of child soldiers, the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative (Dallaire Initiative) at Dalhousie University...
Dallaire Initiative participates in formal launch of DPKO training for peacekeepers in child protection
New York—The Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations, formally launches Train, Act, Protect: A new standard in child protection training for peacekeepers. The launch at the...
DR Congo + 1 more
Groups urge UN peacekeepers to protect civilians as LRA abductions surge in DRC
KINSHASA, 13 March, 2014 – With Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) still a grave threat to civilians, a letter from 59 civil society groups released today...
The Dallaire Initiative conducts integrated approach to address the prevention of the use of child soldiers
Freetown, Sierra Leone— From November 11 th to November 22 nd , in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative will conduct its second set of training of security sector...
Security forces in Sierra Leone set for inaugural training on preventing use of child soldiers
(FREETOWN) — Once a recruiter of child soldiers, Sierra Leone is now poised to become a leader in preventing the use of children in armed conflict, as officers from the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed...
Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative Set to Begin New Project in Sierra Leone
February 11, 2012, (FREETOWN) — The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative will mark February 12, the International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers, in Freetown on Tuesday as it begins a new...
World + 6 more
Children and Youth in Marine Piracy: Causes, Consequences and the Way Forward
Introduction According to the Failed States Index Data 2011, created by the Fund for Peace Organization, 6 countries most affected by piratical activity fall within the top 15 most fragile states...
Child Soldiers: A Handbook for Security Sector Actors
A Unique Approach 2.1 Children in Armed Conflict – A Military Priority In focusing solely upon disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and not upon the complete eradication of the use of...
Living Within Armed Groups: A Gendered Perspective
Executive Summary In May 2012, a workshop entitled “Living Within Armed Groups: A Gendered Perspective” was held at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. The event was facilitated by the Roméo...
World + 3 more
Child Soldiers Initiative: Annual Report 2010
Executive Summary As the Project Director of the Child Soldiers Initiative (CSI), let me thank you for taking the time to read our inaugural Annual Report. In January of 2009, the Child Soldiers...
Canadian groups launch civilian protection training in eastern DRC
Trainings will contribute to protecting women and children from sexual violence and child soldiering MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (July 26, 2011)—World Vision, the Child Soldiers Initiative and the Pearson...
DR Congo + 1 more
Field Report July – August 2010
Executive Summary In the summer of 2010, the Child Soldiers Initiative (CSI) embarked on a short field mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including field stops in Kigali (Rwanda),...