The International Human Rights Watch has urged the UN Security Council to pressure the government and the opposition and its allies to release children from their forces.

It made the call in a report issued on Monday, indicating that about 16, 000 children were conscripted into the army to fight during the conflict between the two parties.

Jo Becker, Advocacy Director of Children’s Rights at the Human Rights Watch, was speaking in an interview with Aljazeera TV.