The Children and Armed Conflict Agenda and the United Nations: Assessing a Decade of Engagement
The international community first began a co-ordinated effort to confront the complexities of the relationship between war and children with Graça Machel's groundbreaking 1996 United Nations study entitled The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children. Since then many non-governmental organizations, United Nations agencies and governments have addressed the severity of abuses of children in wars more proactively, and have advocated better protection of their rights and security.
- Sukanya Podder
- July 28, 2006
- Special Feature
