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Armed conflict and disrupted education expose children to heightened risks of exploitation and violence. (Photo by José Nicolas/Sygma via Getty Images)
AFRICAN CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS AND WELFARE OF THE CHILD

Education can help child soldiers reintegrate into society

A child-rights-based approach to education in disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes gives children the tools for healing, belonging and participation in…

  • Taydren van Vuren
7 min read
A man watches a television report showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on October 19, 2021, after the South’s military said a North Korean weapons test was believed to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)
DISARMAMENT

Even the mind of Dante could not imagine the inferno a nuclear war will plunge us into

The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trial and errors, its success and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned

  • Farouk Araie
3 min read