The long-term impacts of the use of child soldiers is still being felt in places like Sierra Leone, which continues to struggle with this legacy. It is palpable. You can feel it in the streets.

Former child soldiers, forced to commit unimaginable acts of violence, have to navigate the scars of war and rebuild their lives. On Red Hand Day, stories from Sierra Leone offer a glimpse into ...

Sierra Leone's Former Child Soldiers: A Follow-Up Study of Psychosocial Adjustment and Community Reintegration. Child Development , 2010; 81 (4): 1077 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01455.x ...

(New York) - The war crimes court for Sierra Leone has handed down the first convictions by a UN-backed tribunal for the crime of recruiting and using child soldiers.

It's hard to be optimistic about war-torn Sierra Leone, but the head of the United Nations agency for children in that country sees signs of hope in the reintegration of 1,200 former child ...

The child soldiers of Sierra Leone have finally put down their weapons — and picked up cameras. Myriam Denov, a professor in McGill’s School of Social Work has been working with former child ...

Fazineh Keita made his way to Canada in 2007 after finding a way out of the decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone where he experienced life as a child soldier. (CBC) Social Sharing ...

The child soldiers of Sierra Leone Al-haji Sawaneh's story is typical of his generation. Abducted by Sierra Leonean rebels as a child, he was forced to fight alongside them in the bush.

Sierra Leone's government helped British private security service firms recruit former child soldiers to work as guards in Iraq from 2009, said a Danish academic who has spent years investigating ...

Prince Tommy Williams was kidnapped by Sierra Leonean rebels when he was 15 Prince Tommy Williams, who used to be a child soldier in Sierra Leone, was one of hundreds of volunteers who helped ...