After Child Recruitment
Since 2008 Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire have all been taken off the "black-list". The main focus on these children often remains with demobilising and disarming. Re-integrating children is an important part of peace but is expensive and requires work from whole communities.
Read more about this topic: Red Hand Day
Famous quotes containing the word child:
“The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children’s adaptive capacity.”
—David Elkind (20th century)