Yemeni boy poses with a Kalashnikov assault rifle during a gathering of newly-recruited Huthi fighters in the capital Sanaa, to mobilize more...
In April 1996, the Liberian State Council sent police-militia to arrest Prince Roosevelt Johnson on murder charges. As a direct result, fighting...
Newly released child soldiers wait in a line for their registration during the release ceremony in Yambio, South Sudan, on February 7, 2018. More...
An armed child fighter with the LPC poses with a gun at a military training facility during the Liberian Civil War. The Liberia Peace Council is a...
Operation Turquoise was a French military operation in Rwanda organized by the United Nations. The mission, assembled in Zaire on June 22, called for...
Two young National Resistance Army soldiers carrying their rifles over their shoulders in Kampala, Uganda, 1st March 1986.
Young members of the Palestinian security forces take part in an exercise session at the Muqataa in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 29 January 2005....
Young Chadian boy scouts pose with wooden rifles, on February 23 in Doba during the Chadian-Libyan conflict.
Child soldier in Somalia. Forced workers, sex slaves, soldiers despite themselves, aged 5 to 14, these children do not live childhoods, but hell.
Young Seleka coalition rebel poses on March 25, 2013 near the presidential palace in Bangui. The UN Security Council will hold urgent talks on March...
Newly released child soldier looks through a rifle trigger guard during a release ceremony for child soldiers in Yambio, South Sudan, on February 7,...
In April 1996, the Liberian State Council sent police-militia to arrest Prince Roosevelt Johnson on murder charges. As a direct result, fighting...
One of the many young boys who fight in the Lords Resistance Army stands guard as LRA leader Joseph Kony meets with the Southern Sudanese vice...
Children from the Karen National Union insurgent army hold assault weapons during celebrations marking the 51st anniversary of the army's rebellion...
Zairian Tutsi rebel child soldier holding his AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifle 28 November 1996 stands guard in foliage near Goma while a refugee...
Demobilized child soldiers stand 10 December 2004 behind barbed wire in rehabilitation centre in Gitega, Burundi. The process of demobilization of...
School children support operation Red Hand Day, at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on February 13, 2007 in Brussels, Belgium. Red Hand Day...
Picture dated 26 October 1997 shows a 15-year-old Congolese Cobra militiaman nicknamed "the Japanese" for his fast skills in combat, waiting 26...
Kamajor Fighters in Bo, Sierra Leone. Kamajors were a well armed militia fighting for the government forces aginst the RUF rebels. Linked with...
Wall at the stadium of Gulu, northern Uganda, painted by local artists, shows the regions's history. The region is the most affected region by the...
Mural by Italian street art artist AleXsandro Palombo depicting a Jewish child from the WWII Warsaw ghetto, with hands raised, standing between a...
Woman looks at a mural by Italian street art artist AleXsandro Palombo depicting a Jewish child from the WWII Warsaw ghetto, with hands raised,...
Bamba, one of the child fighters of the LURD rebels rests, 08 August 2003, in Viatown quarter of the Liberian capital Monrovia, in a LURD-held zone....
Karen National Union children soldier holds a gun during the anniversary of the 53rd Karen National Resistance Day at Valay Kee base near...
Young militiamen of the RCD and of Mai-Mai groups attend a joined Military training 11 December 2003 in the street of Milindi, few kilometers south...
Young boy carries a rocket-propelled grenade as militiamen loyal to radical Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr clash with US and Iraqi forces in...
Young boy carries a grenade launcher as militiamen loyal to radical Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr celebrate after an attack on a police...
Ugandan former child soldier Dominic Ongwen looks on prior to the ruling in the appeal at the International Criminal Court, in The Hague on December...
Soldiers of National Union for the Total Independence of Angola attend the military parade on December 11, 1985 at Luanda during the commemoration of...
Young Arbaki member, Rustam holds his little brother and a weapon as he poses for photographers during the US Marines from Combat Operation Patrol...
Young Chadian boy scout salutes, holding a wooden rifle, on February 23 in Doba during the Chadian-Libyan conflict.
Ahmed, the 8-year-old son of a Free Syrian Army fighter, stands in front of a barricade were he assists Free Syrian Army fighters in the neighborhood...
Young contra fighter stands at attention in a base camp located inside Honduras. These child volunteer fighters would arrive at base camps...
Young Yemeni fighter loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi poses in the Sirwah area, in Marib province on April 9, 2016. Loyalist forces...
Ahmed, the 8-year-old son of a Free Syrian Army fighter, stands in front of a barricade were he assists Free Syrian Army fighters in the neighborhood...
Joseph Kony, head of the Lords Resistance Army , arrives, at a clearing in the Jungle to take part in peace talks on August 1, 2006 Southern Sudan....
Young soldier from the Democratic Karen Buddhist army , an ethnic Karen armed group which have signed a cease-fire with the government, is sitting in...
Armed Yemeni children sit in the back of a pick up truck with fighters loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in the Dar saad...
An armed Yemeni youth, loyal to the Shiite Muslim Huthi movement that controls Sanaa, sits amid the rubble on December 5 guarding the damaged house...
Joseph Kony, the leader of the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army ltalks during a rare meeting with journalists in this photo taken on...
Young contra fighter rests against sacks of rice at a Honduran base camp near the Nicaraguan border. The youth is armed with an AK-47, equipped with...
Per Ler, a 12 year-old soldier in Kamerplaw, southern Burma, headquarters of God's Army, a ragtag breakaway guerrilla faction of the Christian Karen...
Lebanese child dressed as a militant attends a protest in front of the Egyptian embassy in Beirut on January 3, 2010 against a barrier Egypt is...
An eight-year-old boy, Kalashnikov gun in hand, loyal to the warlord Charles Taylor, chief of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, leads a group...
Zairian Mai-Mai militia rebel child soldier holding his AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifle 01 December 1996 as he and others head for fighting Zaire...
An 11-year-old former child soldier poses with his handmade rifle during a release ceremony in Yambio, South Sudan, on February 7, 2018. - More than...
Newly released child soldiers stand with rifles during their release ceremony in Yambio, South Sudan, on February 7, 2018. - More than 300 child...
Edgar was abducted when he was 10. He became a killing machine, and did terrible things. During his stay in the LRA he attacked his own village...
Mural painting and graffitis in Paris illustrating the violence and the manipulation in suburbs on September 20, 2015 in Paris, France.
Joseph Kony, head of the Lords Resistance Army that has fought a brutal twenty years war against the Ugandan government, shakes hands with the...
Lords Resistance Army guerrillas stand guard around a clearing as LRA leader Joseph Kony meets with the Southern Sudanese vice president Dr Riek...
Soldier of the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, pose with their weapons during a rare appearance in front of journalists in this...