Sentence examples for by armed groups are from inspiring English sources

DAKAR, SENEGAL -- The number of rapes carried out by civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has increased 17-fold in the last few years, according to a study released Thursday that says sexual assaults long perpetrated by armed groups are spreading across the population.

New recruitments of children by armed groups are taking place.

The organization has been working with governments and other UN agencies to ensure that children formerly used by armed groups are protected from further violence, and that they are supported to return to their home communities.

Border control by armed groups is hugely lucrative.

About 120 foreign oil workers were kidnapped in Nigeria in 2006, and violence by armed groups is on the rise.

It should be noted that only adults forcibly recruited by armed groups were included, while reports of both forcible and "voluntary" child recruitment were included.

The recruitment and use of children under the age of 18 by armed groups is prohibited by international law, and constitutes a war crime and crime against humanity if children are recruited and used under the age of 15.

Solange Degbondemo and her 1-year-old daughter, Providence, live in one of the many areas of the capital of the Central African Republic where fighting and pillaging by armed groups were a daily occurrence.

"The attacks against civilians by Palestinian armed groups are widespread, systemic and in pursuit of an explicit policy to attack civilians," the Amnesty report said.

Many of the armed groups are led by former commanders in the war against the Soviet Union.

"Not enough countries, not enough armies, not enough armed groups, are abiding by the fundamental human values enshrined in the Geneva conventions," Maurer writes.