When the armed groups that operate in Colombia's drug trade need new recruits, they are increasingly turning to the children ...

When Patricia Elago Zetty's 13-year-old son went missing in Colombia's conflict-ridden southwest, she didn't hesitate. Elago ...

With child recruitment rising, experts warn that stopping it is a mammoth task that would have to address poverty, armed conflict and cultural norms. “We cannot save everyone.

Patricia Elago Zetty, an Indigenous Guard member, risked her life to rescue her son from guerrilla recruitment in Colombia. The Indigenous Guard of the Nasa people protects their territories from ...

The digital recruitment of children into criminal organizations throughout Latin America is booming, but government responses ...

In Colombia, 30 percent of IDP women under 20 have at least one child, compared to 19 percent of non-displaced women. "It is very important that we continue to work with the authorities and civil ...

FORT LIBERTY — A Fort Liberty soldier who was arrested in Colombia after being accused of child sexual abuse allegations and allegedly going AWOL will be tried at court-martial later this year ...

Under humanitarian law any recruitment of minors into illegal armed groups is defined as forced recruitment, whether or not the child believes he wants to join. Rather than take the risk of losing ...

BUENOS AIRES, September 13. /TASS/. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia announced that it seeks to stop the recruitment of its citizens for participation in the Ukrainian conflict and ...

Here Carlos, 15, spent the next two years as a child soldier of the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), armed, trained and forced to fight on the front line of the civil war against the ...