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This survey highlights efforts to disarm, demobilize and reintegrate former child soldiers in Cambodia, Colombia, El Salvador, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Kosovo, analyzing them in terms of policy and legal issues, political context and program implementation. The special needs facing the former child soldiers are discussed along with political situation and child protection in each country. Conclusion, lessons learned, challenges and recommendations are presented at the end of the survey.
This survey stresses that disarmament; demobilization and reintegration programs need to…
UNICEF estimates suggest that over 1,100 Rohingya children fleeing violence in western Myanmar have arrived unaccompanied in Bangladesh since August 25.
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This story for the BBC features Indonesia's left behind children.
According to the article, the Social and Family Development Ministry of Singapore is looking to better help children in foster care or homes. Mr Chan, the minister of Social Family and Development in Singapore, indicated that the best environment for children to grow up in is one that is akin to a home environment, and this has been supported by evidence from Singapore's and overseas institutional homes. The ministry will also strengthen its re-integration programme for children when they leave the homes or foster care.