A Rangoon art exhibition is featuring more than 300 drawings by children displaced by communal riots in Arakan State and the central Burmese city of Meikhtila over the last two…
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'Most serious penalties' for child solider case
Feb 24, 2010 (DVB)-Three army officials in Burma have been imprisoned in what the International Labour Organisation hail as an unprecedented reprimand of child soldier recruiters by the ruling junta.…
ILO to begin Burma child soldier campaign
Feb 12, 2010 (DVB)-The International Labour Organisation will begin circulating leaflets on forced labour and child solider recruitment across Burma, but not before it is passed through the regime’s notorious…
Exiled media 'should be charged with libel'
Media campaign secures release of child soldier, but ruling junta in Burma charges that allegations were ‘fabricated and false’
ILO to be 'more proactive, not reactive' in Burma
Jan 7, 2010 (DVB), The International Labour Organisation is looking to change its approach to dealing with issues of child soldiers and forced labour in Burma, with a top-level ILO…
Junta chief 'used child soldiers for bodyguards'
Dec 14, 2009 (DVB), Burma's junta strongman Than Shwe has surrounded himself with a special bodyguard unit that took root 15 years ago and reportedly included child soldiers, sources close…