Child Soldiers To Be Freed in Nepal

(17 Dec 09 - RV) Nepal's government and former communist rebels signed an agreement on Wednesday to free nearly 3,000 child soldiers who have been confined in United Nations-monitored camps since a Maoist insurgency ended in 2006.

The chief of child protection for the UN Children’s Fund in Nepal, Joanne Doucet, told us that the majority of the former child soldiers are no longer minors, after spending over three years in the camp...