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Girl soldiers, also referred to as female child soldiers, [1] girls in fighting forces [2] [3] or girls associated with an armed force or armed group (GAAFAG), [4] have been recruited by armed forces and groups in the majority of conflicts in which child soldiers are used. A wide range of rough estimates of their percentage among child soldiers ...
It is estimated that girl soldiers make between 10% and 30%, [48] 6 and 50%, [49] or over 40% of the child soldier population. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] Of the verified cases presented in the 2023 UN Secretary General report, girls make 12.3% of all child soldiers recruited or used by armed groups.
Female child soldiers, serving in state armed forces, non-state armed groups, and other military organizations.They may trained for combat, assigned to support roles, such as cooks, porters/couriers, or messengers, or used for tactical advantage such as for human shields, or for political advantage in propaganda.
The National Resistance Army also made use of child soldiers. [58] Between 2003 and 2007, non-state armed groups fighting the LRA also used children. [59] In 2007 the Ugandan government agreed an action plan with the UN to end the use of child soldiers and in 2008 the country no longer appeared on the UN list of countries that recruit and use ...
Several biographical texts and documentaries have been written and produced documenting the experiences of Akallo and her fellow child soldiers, most notably being the 2007 autobiography; Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children, co-authored with Faith J. H. McDonnell, the 2015 biography Grace Akallo and the Pursuit of ...
Boys are often used as informants, trained to use weapons and ammunition, and deployed in clashes against the police, HRW said. Girls are raped and forced to cook and clean for gang members, the ...
Children on both sides of the conflict see combatants from their own side as "heroes" and dress up as them. In 2024 (during the Israel–Hamas war) the most popular Purim costume for children in Israel was an IDF soldier. [35] [36] The Jerusalem Post reported a "trend towards choosing real-life heroes over fictional ones" to dress up as for ...
Children as young as 8 were reported as having been captured by American troops, with boys aged 12 and under manning artillery units. Girls were also being placed in armed combat, operating anti-aircraft, or flak, guns alongside boys. Children commonly served in auxiliary roles in the Luftwaffe and were known as flakhelfer, from ...