UN Security Council to Study Child Soldier Use in Colombia
by Amy Lieberman • June 28, 2012 • Child soldiers, Human Rights, Security Council • 6 Comments

BOGOTÁ — Two longstanding Colombian armed groups are cited in the United Nations secretary-general’s annual “list of shame” released this month, enumerating parties who use children in armed conflict, among other related human-rights abuses. The country’s two major antigovernment guerrilla groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, and the National Liberation Army (Eln), have [...]
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