In a Weak State: Status and Reintegration of Children Associated with Armed forces and Armed Groups (CAAFAG) in Nepal

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed on 21 November 2006, made an unprecedented commitment to those children who had been involved in Nepal’s decade long civil war. It stipulated that those “children who have already been affected [who] shall be rescued immediately and adequate provisions shall be made for their rehabilitation.” However, since the CPA was ratified, human rights and civil society groups have persistently castigated the government, and particular the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M), for failing to implement a satisfactory disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) framework for CAAFAGs.