Sources for: From Cradle to Conflict: Latin America’s Child Soldiers’ New Direction to Drug Wars

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconflict/soldier.shtml

[2] http://www.ygoy.com/2011/11/15/child-soldiers/

[3] http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm

[4] http://scout.org/en/about_scouting/the_youth_programme/peace_education/scoutpax/social_issues/child_soliders

[5] http://www.cfr.org/human-rights/child-soldiers-around-world/p9331

[6] http://www.prb.org/pdf07/youthinmena.pdf

[7] Ibid.

[8] http://www.ygoy.com/2011/11/15/child-soldiers/

[9] http://www.cfr.org/human-rights/child-soldiers-around-world/p9331

[10] http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/2009/03/us-teenagers-killed-for-the-gulf-drug-cartel.html

[11] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102249839

[12] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/5044633/Mexico-drugs-war-cartels-recruit-child-assassins.html

[13] http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/01/09/mexican-cartels-using-children-to-smuggle-drugs-into-us/

[14] http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-10-17/news/30311673_1_drug-gangs-mexican-drug-cartels

[15] http://creative-associates.us/2010/06/gangs-in-central-america%E2%80%99s-barrios-children-without-childhoods-by-salvador-stadthagen/

[16] http://www.ticotimes.net/Current-Edition/Top-Story/News/Experts-Region-s-gang-policy-ineffective_Friday-February-24-2012

[17] http://creative-associates.us/2010/06/gangs-in-central-america%E2%80%99s-barrios-children-without-childhoods-by-salvador-stadthagen/

[18] http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/world/americas/narco-wars-guatemala-honduras/index.html

[19] Covey, et al. Youth Gangs, 2006.

[20] http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2008/1tri08/sullivaneng.htm

[21] http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2008/1tri08/sullivaneng.htm

[22] Rebeca Pérez and Clarissa Huguet, “Children in Organized Armed Violence,” Child Soldiers Newsletter, Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, Issue 15, January 2007.