Community and on the streets

UNICEF estimates that at least 12,000 children have been taken or recruited in South Sudan’s civil war for use as soldiers last year.       

Both parties to South Sudan’s conflict are actively recruiting and using child soldiers, some boys as young as 13 years old. 

Clandestine abortions or infanticide are the outcome of Senegal's strict abortion laws, allowing abortions only under life threatening circumstances.

Cape Verde has joined the list of states enacting legislation which prohibits all corporal punishment of children, including within the family.