Alarm as girls used as ‘human bombs’, global child soldier index shows
Thomson Reuters Foundation Children were used to fight in at least 18 conflicts since 2016 – including as ‘human bombs’ – despite a global ban on the use of children in war, a database showed on Wednesday. Child soldiers were used in Syria, Libya, Nigeria and Colombia – all of which have ratified a United […]
Eighty-three children used as “human bombs” in north-east Nigeria already this year says UNICEF
At least 83 children, mostly girls, have been used as “human bombs” since January this year in conflict-torn north-east Nigeria – a fourfold increase on the whole of last year’s total, according to new data from UNICEF. The UN child focused agency said that since 1st January, 55 girls – most under 15-years-old, 27 boys […]