Today, a new generation of children is being drawn into warfare in a different way. Not through the barrel of a gun, but through the glow of a screen – existing child protection frameworks are ill ...
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States, June 29 (UNHCR) - Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, recently published his best-selling memoir, "A Long Way Gone." At the age of 12, Beah fled ...
BANDAJUMA, Sierra Leone (UNHCR) - At an age when they should be playing basketball with the other kids, two teenaged boys have chosen to sit it out on the bench, staring blankly ahead with troubled ...