Human Rights Advocates Urge Holder To Address Problem of Child Soldiers Imprisoned at Guantanamo

When President Obama declared early in his presidency that he plans to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that was hardly the end of the matter. Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder must now figure out what to do with the 240 or so people still held there. More…

Conflict Heating Up Over U.S. War Crimes Trials of Children

The United States could be the first Western nation in recent years to try a prisoner for war crimes allegedly committed as a child.

So says the ACLU, which is calling on the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child and the U.N. Special Representative for Children and Armed More…