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Children call for an end to their forced use in conflict

Permanent Representative of Mexico to the UN Claude Heller (left), UN Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sign ‘red hands’ petition.<br />© UNICEF/NYHQ2009-0105/Markisz

Permanent Representative of Mexico to the UN Claude Heller (left), UN Special Representative Radhika Coomaraswamy, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sign ‘red hands’ petition.
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NEW YORK, USA, 13 February 2009 – Children from 101 countries have appealed to international leaders to take stronger action to end the use of child soldiers.

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In DR Congo, counselling and education heal the invisible wounds of war

© UNICEF/NYHQ2008-1016/Christine Nesbitt</br>Children in a classroom are visible through a hole in the wall at Kinkole Primary school near Kinshasa

© UNICEF/NYHQ2008-1016/Christine NesbittChildren in a classroom are visible through a hole in the wall at Kinkole Primary school near Kinshasa

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 11 March 2008 – Moka, 13, was hiding at home with his family when the mortar landed. “It killed my grandfather and my younger brother,” he says. “We saw them dead, blown up, burnt.”

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