Sentences with phrase «child soldiers in»

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

You can put forth $ 25 to buy a play therapy kit for rescued child soldiers in Uganda.

Adrienne Paone, an English teacher at Pedro Menendez High School in St. Augustine, will assign students a few nonfiction articles on gun control as an accompaniment to the memoir «A Long Way Gone,» which exposes the plight of child soldiers in Africa.

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

Many readers had no idea that children as young as ten were fighting and having to kill people, so we put together a campaign to help put a stop to the use of child soldiers in adult wars.

We ran a story about child soldiers in First News.

In addition, students research examples of contemporary slavery — such as child soldiers in Burma and unpaid agricultural workers in the U.S. — and create brochures to educate the community about slavery's existence today and how it can be eradicated.

The violent war drama about child soldiers in Ghana led by Elba's paternal general would have been a hard sell in any case.

Looking for suitable candidates to play the crucial lead role of 11 - year - old Agu in Beasts of No Nation, his gruelling drama about child soldiers in west Africa, True Detective director Cary Fukunaga initially put out on open casting appeal across local TV and radio in Ghana.

Fukuanga adapts a novel by Uzodinma Iweala about child soldiers in an unnamed African country, with Idris Elba playing highly influential Commandant character.

Brad Pitt and Emma Thompson, will narrate the film... Marcel Ophüls is planning a film about Ernst Lubitsch to star Dustin Hoffman, with Jeanne Moreau as Lubitsch's private secretary... Errol Morris is underway on Holland, Michigan, a narrative feature starring Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, and Edgar Ramirez... David Fincher is re-teaming with producer Scott Rudin and writer Aaron Sorkin on a Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson's biography and structured around three pivotal moments in Jobs's life... Hot from HBO's True Detective, Cary Fukunaga is directing Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation, a drama about child soldiers in Ghana...

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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.

As a result, American taxpayer money is currently supporting the use of child soldiers in several countries, and the highest levels of Congress, the State Department and White House all know about it.

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

There are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers in the rogue military and other armed groups of the world.

Daniel Grove's neon - soaked feature debut follows reformed mobster Behrouz, who is haunted by memories of being a child soldier in Iran in the 1980s.

The details: Based on the Uzodinma Iweala novel of the same name, Beasts Of No Nation follows a young orphan (Abraham Attah) forced to be a child soldier in an unnamed African country under the watch of a brutal commandant (Idris Elba).

Solomon's son is picked up by the RUF and becomes a child soldier in the uprising.

The Snows of Serbia: A Child Soldier in the Great War Stevan Idjidovic Stevens, with Edith S. Stevens and Ernest W. Kimmel, Ed.M.»

Beah tells, in his own words, his harrowing experiences as a child soldier in the Sierra Leone civil war.

Iweala's debut novel, Beast of No Nation, tells the story of a child soldier in West Africa, and came out of his undergraduate thesis work at Harvard.

Not exact matches

Centered around child prodigies turned into soldiers by the world government in order to combat an alien threat, the book is exceedingly intelligent.

Then, he was airlifted to the U.S. as part of a program developed to help the children of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam.

Joseph Kony, an African warlord who has kidnapped children and forced them to become soldiers for decades, was the face of a 30 - minute YouTube video that went viral back in March 2012.

In comparing dictatorial Sudanese President Omar Hassan al - Bashir to Omar Khadr, because both were arguably once child soldiers, the Toronto Sun «s Peter Worthington attains stratospheric levels of incoherence.

But the Zionist soldiers in Israel kill children, innocent little babies, rape women who are innocent, destroy our mosques (I'm from Palestine), run over kids with tanks, destroy our houses, imprison my people, beat my cousins (my cousin was beaten to a pulp by the Zionists), and they're called the good guys in this whole Palestinian - Israeli conflict.

The soldiers who receive the packages eat some of the candy themselves, but often, it is also distributed to local children in the communities where troops are deployed.

uh huh, so if morals are inherent, why are child soldiers so common in the third world?

A couple of my soldiers go out into the bush to find children who have been scattered in the raid or grabbed by the LRA, then left behind.

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.

These Bible tards complain about abortion, but have no problems in going to war and killing soldiers, women and children.

Male child soldiers are forced to rape under threat of death as part of their initiation, while in other cases men are rewarded for displays of brutality.

And regardless that does not matter because if soldiers go in and kill woman and children and have no mercy, that is not just, it is not moral, there is no excuse for indiscriminate killing of innocents.

It suggests going in as heavily armed as possible, since child soldiers are often more inclined to tackle lightly armed units.

In real life, the child who noticed and proclaimed the emperor's nakedness would have been dragged away, along with his family, by soldiers.

Whether one is caught in a tug - of - war between a religious sect and one's parents, between the demands of the workplace and the claims of wife and children, or between the love of fellow soldiers and the love of wife and parents, the strains are very real.

The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves.

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O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it --

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

The soldiers stopped and watched... they had not heard children laugh since their arrival in Iraq.

Craig has stated it must have been terribly upsetting for Israelite soldiers to burst into homes and kill infants and children in front of their mothers who they also had to slay because Yahweh wanted them to commit genocide.

We are not called to imitate Jesus as a child seeks to imitate a parent, nor are we called to obey him in the manner of soldiers obeying a direct order.

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

More children are killed by war lords in Afghansitan and gangs in Somalia than are filled by US soldiers.

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In 2008, the United States decided to take dramatic measures to prevent the spread of the use of child soldiers.

Militaries that use child soldiers or [use children for] training or supportfor peacekeeping operations and so on and so forth... In many cases, we're not actually talking about arms sales, it may just be training and other stuff.»

Many of those forced to participate in the campaign of violence were child soldiers — ones, who, as of November, are left out of the CSPA's protection.