Definition: Parents forcing the child to be different from the local norm, either sex-inappropriate (e.g. dressing a boy in girl's clothes), age-inappropriate (e.g. forcing a child to take on responsibilities above her or his own age) or otherwise inappropriate (e.g. pressing the child to engage in unwanted or too difficult activities).

Colombian Rebel Army

Definition: Problems related to contact or attempted contact with the child's or the other person's breasts or genitals, sexual exposure in close confrontation or attempt to undress or seduce the child, by a substantially older person outside the child's family, either on the basis of this person's position or status or against the will of the child.

child protection [ child abuse | child soldier | ill-treated child | moral protection of children ]

Definition: Conduct disorder, usually occurring in younger children, primarily characterized by markedly defiant, disobedient, disruptive behaviour that does not include delinquent acts or the more extreme forms of aggressive or dissocial behaviour. The disorder requires that the overall criteria for F91.- be met; even severely mischievous or naughty behaviour is not in itself sufficient for diagnosis. Caution should be employed before using this category, especially with older children, because clinically significant conduct disorder will usually be accompanied by dissocial or aggressive behaviour that goes beyond mere defiance, disobe ...[+++]dience, or disruptiveness.

child care [ baby-sitting | child minding | children's home | crèche | day nursery | kindergarten | nursery ]

children's services worker | residential support worker (young people) | residential home young people care worker | support worker (young people in care)

Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Childcare Network | European Commission Network on Childcare

Thus, as a direct result of crises, children often spend a long time in refugee camps without access to education or other value-creating activities, and as a consequence, they are often left with no other choice than joining rebel groups or participating in criminal activities after the conflict.

Between May and August 2012, he oversaw the recruitment and training of over 150 children for the M23 rebellion, shooting the boys who had tried to escape.

Between May and August 2012, he oversaw the recruitment and training of over 150 children for the M23 rebellion, shooting the boys who had tried to escape.

137. Is concerned that thousands of children continue to be used as "armed pawns" in more than 20 countries across the globe; points out that, according to the 2004 Global Report on Child Soldiers, child soldiers were used in armed conflict by the governments and armed rebel groups in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Mynamar, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda and by rebel forces in Sri Lanka; strongly urges all government armed forces and other armed groups to release immediately all children in their ranks;