The Red Hand campaign began on Feb. 22, 2008, when German youth activists initiated to collect the 250,000 hand-prints ultimately presented in a book to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a plea to ...

Former child soldiers, forced to commit unimaginable acts of violence, have to navigate the scars of war and rebuild their lives. On Red Hand Day, stories from Sierra Leone offer a glimpse into ...

The problem persists because children’s presence on the battlefield throws the training and ethics of professional soldiers off balance. Children are widely considered innocent, harmless, and ...

Today, the Africa Platform on Children Affected by Armed Conflicts (AP-CAAC) joins the global community in commemorating the International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers, also known as Red ...

For more than two decades, Theresa Betancourt has studied Sierra Leone’s former child soldiers. Her new book Shadows into Light tells their stories.