Blue Valley Libraries: PSAs for 6th Grade: Child Soldiers

Video Clip for KWL

See Mrs. Hassig for "What's Going On?" DVD "Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone"

Child Soldiers International
Breaks down numbers and countries
Human Rights Watch
Multiple articles on Child Soldiers Worldwide
SOS Children's Villages and Child Soldiers
Breakdown of child soldiers by country and the effort to stop child soldiers
UNICEF
Children as Soldiers
International Rescue Committee
Child Soldiers

You may also want to look at the links on "Child Refugees" and "Children of War" because these children are victims of war too!

Child Soldiers in Sudan
UNICEF Article
Human Rights Watch
“South Sudan: Child Soldiers Thrust into Battle” – Article from August 12, 2014
NPR - National Public Radio
"A Former Child Soldier Finds Escape, Heaven Through His Music" - Article is on NPR.org and you can listen to it while you read the transcript!
Syria Deeply
“ISIS Sets a 'New Paradigm' for Child Soldiers: Ideology, Combat and Forced Marriage” - Article from 11/27/2014
Do Something.org
“11 Facts about Child Soldiers”
Inter Press Service News Agency
“Returning Sudanese Child Soldiers Their Childhood” - Article from 4/15/2012