UNODC Roadmap on the Treatment of Children Associated with Terrorist and Violent Extremist Groups

Reports indicate that, in the past years, thousands of persons below the age of eighteen (hereinafter “children”) have been recruited and exploited by terrorist and violent extremist groups. These children are subject to violence at multiple levels, and, at the same time, they may become particularly dangerous instruments in the hands of those exploiting them and/or instrumentalising them for comm...