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This survey highlights efforts to disarm, demobilize and reintegrate former child soldiers in Cambodia, Colombia, El Salvador, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Kosovo, analyzing them in terms of policy and legal issues, political context and program implementation. The special needs facing the former child soldiers are discussed along with political situation and child protection in each country. Conclusion, lessons learned, challenges and recommendations are presented at the end of the survey.
This survey stresses that disarmament; demobilization and reintegration programs need to…
Two sisters in Colombia who were separated when they were children after an avalanche destroyed their town have been reunited 30 years later. The sisters, Jaqueline and Lorena Sanchez, were separated in 1985 when a volcano in Tolima erupted, killing at least 20,000 people. The two sisters were adopted by separate families and spent years looking for each other. The two were reunited after DNA tests, a social media campaign and with help from the Armando Armero Foundation which was set up to help victims of the disaster in Tolima.