Researching Current Conflicts

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Child Soldiers

• Child Soldiers [Human Rights Watch]

Syrian Civil War

• For Children Caught in Syria’s War, 2016 Was Worst Year Yet, U.N. Says [NYT]

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• One-Third of Syrian Children Were Born During War, Unicef Report Finds [NYT]

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• The Toys They Carried: Syrian Children Under Siege [NYT]

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• Syrian Crisis [UNICEF]

• Syrian Civil War [Britannica School]

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Rohingya Crisis

• Rohingya Crisis [Save the Children]

• A ‘lost generation’ of Rohingya children will have nowhere to go [Amnesty International]

• Rohingya Children Facing ‘Massive Mental Health Crisis’ [NYT]

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• At Risk in Rohingya Exodus: 230,000 Children, Hundreds All Alone [NYT]

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• Rohingya Crisis: What You Need to Know [National Geographic]

Conflicts

• Myanmar-Rohingya

• Ugandan conflict (Lords Resistance Army)

• Colombian civil war (1964- Present)

• War in Democratic Republic of Congo (First and Second Congo War)

• Burundian Civil War

• Liberian Civil War (First and Second Liberian Civil War)

Russo-Ukrainian War

• The Children of War [NYT]

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• Ukraine conflict: Child soldiers join the fight, 2014 [BBC]

• Ukrainian children used as ‘human shields’ near Kyiv, say witness reports [The Guardian]

• War in Ukraine [UNICEF]

• Fact Check-Screenshot purporting to show CNN tweet claiming that child soldiers are fighting in eastern Ukraine is digitally altered [Reuters]

• See the effects of war, conflict on Ukraine's children [USA Today]

• Pencil, chalk and first-aid kits: Ukrainian children return to school in the midst of war [NYT]

Yemeni civil war

• 2 Paths for Yemen’s War-Scarred Children: Combat, or Marriage [NYT]

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• On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur [NYT]

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• Yemen [BBC]

Darfur

• Conflict in Darfur [Britannica]

• Living a Genocide: The Children of Darfur [University of South Florida Library]

• On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur [NYT]

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Boko Haram Insurgency

• Nigeria Agrees to End Military Detention of Children [HRW]

• Boko Haram Is Back. With Better Drones [NYT]

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• Trained to Kill: How Four Boy Soldiers Survived Boko Haram

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• Beneath Mask of Normal Nigerian Life, Young Lives Scarred by Boko Haram

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• A harrowing escape from Boko Haram in Nigeria [UNICEF]

• UNICEF calls for end to recruitment and use of child soldiers [UNICEF]

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Research

Research Links

• NYT

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• The Economist (via Gale)

• Google Fact Check Explorer