News // Nicolas Cage Donates $2 Million to Help End Suffering of Child Soldiers

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Nicolas Cage Donates $2 Million to Help End Suffering of Child Soldiers
Amnesty International Will Administer Funds for On-the-ground Efforts to Rehabilitate Young Combatants

(New York) — Amnesty International USA announced today that actor and filmmaker Nicolas Cage is donating $2 million to establish a fund to help former child soldiers, which will include support for rehabilitation shelters, medical services and psychological and reintegration services, and to support Amnesty International’s work on child soldiers. Amnesty International, a member of the Coalition Against the Use of Child Soldiers, will administer the funds to service providers on the ground. Amnesty International, Oxfam and International Action Network on Small Arms are focusing on encouraging the United States to lead efforts to establish strict guidelines on the international transfer of small arms and light weapons.

News / Johnny Mad Dog Movie

On the 5th November 2008 a shoking but realistic movie on the life of a former Child Soldier , will appear in the French cinemas.

“The brutal French-Belgian-Liberian movie Johnny Mad Dog, an assaultive fiction about Liberian child soldiers made with boys and girls who actually fought in that country’s recent war, left me wrung out – furious, confused, deep in thought,” writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. “One of a gang of lost children who call themselves ‘the death dealers,’ Mad Dog roams the wastelands of his country, spreading machine-gun terror and death – to men, women and other children – in the name of the revolution. Whose revolution? The movie doesn’t say…. Without context, information or explanation, the movie plunges you into horror – yet, to what end?”

This film deals with the Child Soldier’s situation which is explain in this blog, if you want to know more about it please click on the following links :

Extract of the movie

Official site

News / The Child Soldiers Cd !!

The “No child soldiers” movement is a french organisation which deals with the awful Child Soldiers’ actual situation around the world. In order to help the children currently involved in conflicts “No child Soldiers” collaborated with singers to create and sale “The no child soldiers’s cd”. You can find it in almost every big salers in France as Fnac, or Virgin….