Sentences with phrase «many former child soldiers»

Speaking about the crisis, he said: «Today a group of these former child soldiers with whom I shared my life are standing shoulder to shoulder with me.

A Christian from Sierra Leone who helps former child soldiers and victims of Ebola has addressed the... More

A Christian from Sierra Leone who helps former child soldiers and victims of Ebola has addressed the Queen and thousands of others at a service in Westminster Abbey.

It's not signed by Bruce Springsteen, but by the former child soldiers in Uganda who enrolled in a school Goff helped start.

World Vision Children of War Reintegration Centre has helped rehabilitate and reintegrate nearly 15,000 former child soldiers and children born in captivity in the past decade.

PJ Cole spent his childhood fleeing danger and sharing his parents with hundreds of former child soldiers caught up in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war.

Emmanuel Jal, a Sudanese musician and former child soldier says, «in a way [this Invisible Children campaign] robbed the dignity of the people of Northern Uganda».

Placements last year included a mother with a five - year - old who had never been to London and a former child soldier.

Some programs worked in one country but failed in another: Teaching emotional regulation to former child soldiers in Sierra Leone improved their social relationships, for example, whereas a similar effort for Palestinian children increased symptoms of PTSD.

In a study in Nepal, being affiliated with a political movement appeared to protect mental health among former child soldiers.

He was a former child soldier who ruthlessly slaughtered his enemies and thus was granted the nickname «Jack the Ripper».

There's certainly no disputing that one of the breakout stars of Cannes this year is Antonythasan Jesuthasan, a former child soldier with the Sri Lankan militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who fled the country in the late 1980s and eventually made his way to France, where he became an acclaimed playwright, essayist and novelist.

Produced by a group of well - known filmmakers, such as Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, this movie stars former child soldiers and lost boys, as well as the children of real - life Sudanese refugees.

Raiden, a former child soldier Solidus had secretly been training, is sent on what he believes to be a virtuous mission: stopping Solid Snake, a former agent gone rogue, from stealing a Metal Gear.

The one instance of a sympathetic character within the bloodshed is Benjamin (Basil Wallace), who helps former child soldiers recover, but even he becomes a victim of the violence.

«High Hopes, Grim Reality: Reintegration and the Education of Former Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone.»

For instance, Ndale, an 11 - year - old Congolese boy and former child soldier, now demonstrates with children against conscription.

Many former child soldiers do not have access to the educational programs, vocational training, family reunification, or even food and shelter that they need to successfully rejoin civilian society.

Skyjack, the sequel to The Freedom Broker (2017), finds kidnap expert Thea escorting two former child soldiers when their plane is hijacked.

You're staring at a former child soldier.

The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini, who escaped war - torn Syria, José Maria João, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa, a survivor from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Saveri, an Indian transgender activist; Luis Nava, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed, a young atheist from Somalia.

In 2010 Shames was named a Purpose Prize Fellow for his work helping these AIDs orphans, former child soldiers, and children living in refugee camps

Emily explains, «I had prior experience advocating for former child soldiers, human trafficking survivors, vulnerable women, and displaced persons.

Mental health problems, subjective WE and PWE contexts were assessed by local adaptations of internationally developed measures for use with former child soldiers at least 6 years after the end of the war.

Conclusions PWE are a key determinant of continued mental health problems in former child soldiers.

Method WAYS is an ongoing study of a large cohort of former child soldiers being conducted in Uganda.

The risk and protective factors associated with PTSD symptom change among former child soldiers in Sierra Leone were investigated.

The couple have one daughter, Gaia, 13, and a son, Tindyebwa Agaba, 26, a former child soldier from Rwanda whom they informally adopted when he was 16.

Not exact matches

No fewer than 144 ex-Maoist child soldiers have been arrested by Nepal police following protests at the headquarters of their former party on Tuesday, a spokesman for Kathmandu police office, disclosed.

Former General Officer Commanding 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major General Kamaldeen Role on Saturday commended late Brigadier General Solomon Giwa Amu, the former Aide De Camp (ADC) to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for his impact in the education of children of soldiers in the barracks commFormer General Officer Commanding 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major General Kamaldeen Role on Saturday commended late Brigadier General Solomon Giwa Amu, the former Aide De Camp (ADC) to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for his impact in the education of children of soldiers in the barracks commformer Aide De Camp (ADC) to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for his impact in the education of children of soldiers in the barracks commformer President Olusegun Obasanjo, for his impact in the education of children of soldiers in the barracks community.

Visiting a UNICEF site which helps look after child soldiers, former abductees of the Lord's Resistance Army.

A taut teen drama about a former African child soldier coming to terms with London life who witnesses a stabbing that stirs memories from the past.

Creators Christos Gage may have created a new genre, «geezer noir,» with his graphic novel Sunset, the tale of an old soldier and former hitman who sets off after his old boss when he fears his ex-wife and child are in peril: ««He's got this craggy face and you see his life written in the lines of his face, and black and white makes that so much more powerful,» the writer says.

The only thing that keeps the villain in Metal Gear Solid 2, Solidus Snake or former US President George Sears, from being totally sympathetic is the fact that he used to recruit and use children soldiers, including at one point Raiden himself.