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Archive 24 December 2021

Advancing Women Peace and Security Resolutions and the fight against COVID19 in Lake Chad Basin and Sahel regions

The growth of violent extremism in Africa — and the devastating impact of groups espousing violent ideologies — is not only setting in motion a dramatic reversal of development gains already made, but threatening to stunt prospects of development for decades to come.
Read more: Advancing Women Peace and Security Resolutions and the fight against COVID19 in Lake Chad Basin and Sahel regions
Archive 5 October 2021

CHILDREN ENGAGED IN MILITARY DRILLS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING CAMEROON

This is a worrying image coming from a community where children have been prohibited from going to school over the last five years in Cameroon due to the Anglophone crisis.
Read more: CHILDREN ENGAGED IN MILITARY DRILLS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING CAMEROON
Archive 5 August 2021

Hidden survivors of conflict related sexual violence: children born of wartime rape

I am the one in the margins, nameless, faceless, silenced. Yet it is those of us on the fringes who give shape to things. Hear my story, feel my life.
Read more: Hidden survivors of conflict related sexual violence: children born of wartime rape
Archive 22 June 2021

African youth call for a ceasefire and nuclear weapons cuts to help address Covid-19 pandemic

Young Africans from Children for Peace and the African Network of Young Leaders for Peace and Sustainable Development (ANYL4PSD) have given strong support for the UN Secretary-General’s call for a global ceasefire.
Read more: African youth call for a ceasefire and nuclear weapons cuts to help address Covid-19 pandemic
Archive 10 June 2021

How Cartoons Combat Extremism in Africa?

Over the past two decades, the threat posed by violent extremist groups that espouse fundamentalist religious narratives has grown substantially across Africa.
Read more: How Cartoons Combat Extremism in Africa?
Archive 10 June 2021

Youth Action and Intergenerational Cooperation on Peace and Disarmament.

The conscription, recruitment and use of children in armed forces constitute one of the most egregious human rights violations due to the defencelessness of the victims.
Read more: Youth Action and Intergenerational Cooperation on Peace and Disarmament.

Events

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JUN 2021 — DEC 2021

SILENCE THE GUNS 3

Acting for more children in peacebuilding and children rights. Featured campaign event.
25 MAY 2021

Africa Day Celebration

Children celebrating African unity, culture and peace.
FROM MAR 2021 — ONGOING

Sister Cities of Peace for Children

Linking cities across borders for children-led peace.

25-26 JULY 2018: Capacity building — fight against violent extremism and the involvement of children in armed groups
August 2015 — December 2017: Children Peace Clubs
December 2018 — December 2019: He For She awareness raising campaigns against early marriage
December 2019 — September 2020: Silence the Guns campaign
December 2020: Speaker during the launching of the Youth
Divina Maloum speaker during the Nuclear Games (five manga stories project)
February 2021: How cartoons combat extremism in Africa — UNA Youth Platform UK
February 2021: UN Virtual Civil Society Briefing — Childhood after Atrocity Crimes
February — June 2015: “I am standing for Peace” campaign
January 2021: Youth action and intergenerational cooperation on peace and disarmament
January — June 2019: United for Peace (United4Peace)
January — May 2016: Inter-community children peace camp
January — September 2018: Life skills support project for gender equity and peacebuilding
July — October 2019: Study — child soldiers in Central Africa
June 2020: Global webinar on resistance to nuclear weapons and war
March — April 2021: MIFALI — Moving in Feminism with Adolescent Leaders in Action
March — June 2020: Campaign for nuclear disarmament
March — May 2020: Move the Nuclear Weapons Money social media campaign
May 2020: Speaker at the Regional Online Workshop — African Youth Resilience Initiatives against COVID-19
May 2020: Speaker during the International Conference
May — December 2020: Girls Voice against COVID-19
September 2016 — March 2017: Art for Peace project
September 2020: Global webinar — the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi for future generations
September 2020: International Peace Day celebration
September — December 2017: Sport for Peace
Project Silence the Guns
June 2020: Global webinar

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News & Events

News

Advancing Women Peace and Security Resolutions and the fight against COVID19 in Lake Chad Basin and Sahel regions

CHILDREN ENGAGED IN MILITARY DRILLS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING CAMEROON

Hidden survivors of conflict related sexual violence: children born of wartime rape

African youth call for a ceasefire and nuclear weapons cuts to help address Covid-19 pandemic

How Cartoons Combat Extremism in Africa?

Youth Action and Intergenerational Cooperation on Peace and Disarmament.

Events

SILENCE THE GUNS 3

Africa Day Celebration

Sister Cities of Peace for Children

Partner with Children for Peace

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