Ms Coomaraswamy, special envoy for children in armed conflict, said no child had been prosecuted for a war crime since World War II.

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Radhika Coomaraswamy, the U.N. special representative for children in armed conflict, plans to release a report in October on the state of Afghan children.

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The discussion focused on the follow-up and implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1998 on the protection of children in armed conflict, which was adopted shortly after the publication of the 2011 UNESCO Global Monitoring Report on Education for All on the hidden crisis of education in conflict.

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Personal, visual stories created with our partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo helped put a warlord behind bars and caused a decline in the mobilization of children as soldiers in armed conflict.

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Increasing numbers of children in Syria are being recruited by armed groups on both sides of the conflict, Save the Children says in a report.

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The report said it had found a growing pattern of children under the age of 18 being used by armed groups on both sides in the conflict.

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According to the Clinton Administration, for example, our armed forces could not use tear gas in an international conflict in which enemy combatants employed women and children as shields while prosecuting their attacks.

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The plan is to raise money for Save the Children's Rewrite the Future program, which is focused on educating children whose lives have been disrupted by armed conflict, and Kiva's effort to provide small loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world who need capital to improve their lives.

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