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This study identifies risk factors for voluntarily joining armed groups, as well as to test association of conscription status and mental health. Interviews were conducted with 258 former child soldiers who participated in a communist revolution in Nepal. All districts participated in UNICEF-sponsored reintegration programs for child soldiers. Of these child soldiers 80% joined “voluntarily.” Girls were 2.07 times more likely to join voluntarily than boys (95% CI [1.03–4.16], p = .04). Among girls, 51% reported joining voluntarily because of personal connections to people who were…
This document provides guidelines to reintegrating trafficked and displaced children in Nepal, based on the approach and methodology developed and utilized by Next Generation Nepal (NGN) and The Himalayan Innovative Society (THIS). The guidelines have been grouped into distinct chapters, including: (1) introduction; (2) explanation of the process whereby children are displaced from their families by traffickers, how and why they are institutionalized in children's homes and orphanages, and the negative impact that this has on the children; (3) overview of the working context that…
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“This article argues that orphanage voluntourism fuels the displacement and trafficking of children from their families in Nepal and their unnecessary institutionalisation. It shows that the displacement of children from their families into institutions initially arose in response to forced conscriptions of children into the Maoist rebel army and a desire of the families for their children to have quality education. After the conflict ended, this phenomenon became more about a desire by the poor rural families to have their children educated and thus escape the poverty trap.…