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 * The Department of State's annual Trafficking in Persons Report assesses foreign government actions to combat trafficking, including protecting child soldier victims.
 * In FY 2004, the United States Government spent more than $81 million on anti-trafficking efforts abroad. For example:
 * USAID is funding a program to rehabilitate children who were abducted and trafficked by a terrorist organization to bases in southern Sudan and northern Uganda, and to protect children who travel on foot nightly from villages into towns to avoid abduction.
 * In Afghanistan, the Department of Labor is funding a program that has demobilized nearly 4,000 child soldiers and enrolled them in education and counseling programs.
 * In the past three years, the Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs funded programs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Liberia for reintegrating former child combatants.
 * In 1999, the United States ratified International Labor Organization Convention 182, which recognizes the "forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict" as one of the worst forms of child labor.
 * In December 2002, the United States ratified the UN Optional Protocol on the Use of Children in Armed Conflict that makes the minimum compulsory recruitment age 18.