Sentence examples for used by armed groups from inspiring English sources

Child protection and mine awareness: UNICEF will continue to play a crucial role in ensuring the protection of children, women and vulnerable groups from abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect throughout Sudan, with issues regarding children recruited and used by armed groups and armed at the forefront.

"Children in Yemen are being used by armed groups, manning checkpoints or carrying arms.

Children in Yemen are being used by armed groups, manning check-points or carrying arms.

Children are being used by armed groups as combatants, sexual slaves and in other functions to support armed groups.

In Colombia at least 8,000 children are being used by armed groups of left and right.

An American military spokesman said the peacekeepers' aim was to eliminate safe havens that could be used by armed groups in southern Kosovo.

One possibility is that they had fallen short when being fired at areas on the outskirts of Beit Lahia used by armed Palestinian groups to launch rockets into Israel.

As a signatory to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, the Central African Republic is accountable to ensure that no child is used by armed forces or armed groups in any way.

"UNICEF is heartened that ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo emphasized the plight of children recruited or used by armed forces or armed groups in his successful prosecution".

UNICEF has also called on all parties to the conflict to ensure that children are protected at all times, that no child is recruited or used by armed forces or armed groups, and that their rights are protected in accordance with international human rights and humanitarian law.

The MRM seeks to monitor the following six grave violations against children: killing and maiming; abduction; attacks against schools and hospitals; rape and sexual violence; denial of humanitarian access; and recruitment or use of child soldiers (now referred to as children recruited or used by armed forces or armed groups) [ 11].