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Home > Africa: The Girl Child and Armed Conflict

Contributor [1]
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 02:00
Categories: 
Women & gender [2]
Issue Number: 
279 [3]
Article-Summary: 

During armed conflict, girls are subject to widespread and, at times, systematic forms of human rights violations that have mental, emotional, spiritual, physical and material repercussions. These violations include illegal detention with or without family members, abduction and forced removal from families and homes, disappearances, torture and other inhuman treatment, forced marriage and forced child-bearing.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/wgender/38480 [5]

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