The U.N. children's fund says armed men in eastern Congo raped hundreds of children and recruited child soldiers at unprecedented levels as the conflict in the mineral- rich region intensified in rece ...

Between 2005 and 2022, more than 105,000 children are estimated to have been recruited and used in armed conflict around the world. Today ...

Dozens of children caught up in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been subjected to sexual ...

In eastern Congo, armed men have committed severe humanitarian crimes, including the rape of hundreds of children and ...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday condemned the rape of numerous children by armed groups, likely from ...

The U.N. children’s fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of ...

MILITIAS fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are recruiting child soldiers and raping hundreds of children, UN children’s fund Unicef said today.

UNICEF played a primary role in negotiating ... The plan anticipates training 5,000 young people (including 1,200 former child soldiers) by May 2005, with the International Labor Organization ...

Armed men have raped dozens of children in eastern Congo over the past weeks, UNICEF says. It comes as rebels expand their footprint in the area and push government forces out. At such a critical ...

Armed men in eastern Congo raped hundreds of children and recruited child soldiers at unprecedented levels, the U.N. children’s fund said Thursday, as the conflict in the mineral-rich region ...

UN agency says children as young as 12 are also being enlisted or coerced to join the fighting by armed groups.