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UN Security Council condemns recruitment of child soldiers

22 April 2004
The United Nations Security Council today condemned the recruitment of child soldiers and called on Secretary-General Kofi Annan to create a monitoring mechanism, preferably within three months, "to provide timely objective, accurate and reliable information on the recruitment and use of child soldiers in violation of applicable international law."
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador George Weah

Liberia: UN Envoy and sports star visit disarmed child soldiers

22 April 2004
The head of the United Nations mission in Liberia, Jacques Paul Klein, and a UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador, Liberian-born former international soccer star George Weah, today visited demobilized child soldiers at an interim care centre in the West African country and encouraged them to rejoin their families and go back to school.

Contradictory laws undermine children’s right to education – UN report

20 April 2004
The right of children to education is being seriously undermined in dozens of countries by contradictory laws that allow them to work, be married or held criminally responsible at an age when they are legally bound to be in school, according to a new United Nations report launched today.

Paper packaging company 'Stora Enso' to raise $2.5 million for UNICEF projects

6 April 2004
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced today that it has struck a five-year agreement with Stora Enso, a paper, packaging and forest products company, to help it in its bid to extend basic education to the 121 million children around the world who cannot go to school.