Liberia: Amnesty International stresses need to help child soldiers

Amnesty International has called on donor nations to provide adequately for the needs of an estimated 21,000 former child soldiers who are currently being disarmed in Liberia. The international group released a report on child soldiers in Liberia on Monday as the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its thirty-sixth session. "The children of Liberia have been killed, made orphans, maimed, abducted, deprived of education and health care - and recruited and used as child soldiers," Amnesty said in a statement accompanying the release of its report.