WASHINGTON (AP) – Myanmar is still recruiting and using child soldiers, despite embracing democratic reforms and a U.N. agreement to end the practice, a human rights group said Wednesday. Child ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called for the Myanmar military to stop the recruitment and use of child soldiers. Since the junta took over Myanmar in the 2021 coup, the recruitment and use of ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Myanmar’s government has made progress in reducing the recruitment of children into the armed forces but still needs to stamp out the ...

“The list of shame” part of the United Nation’s annual report on children in armed conflict was published last week. The only state actor listed for a horrendous number of the five types of violations ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a highly unusual intervention, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq and Myanmar from a U.S. list of the world's worst offenders in the use of child soldiers, ...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Children are being snatched off the streets of Myanmar and forced to fight and commit atrocities in an army with the world's largest number of boy soldiers, according to human ...

(Reuters) -Myanmar's ruling junta said on Friday it has already discharged 93 minors from military service, responding to a United Nations report last month accusing it and its allies of recruiting ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's army released 109 children from its military ranks on Thursday in its single biggest discharge of child soldiers, but boys are still being illegally recruited from poor ...