 As of 2010, child soldiers of the CPN has since been demobilized

Islamist and communist armed groups fighting the government have routinely relied on child recruits.In 2001 Human Rights Watch reported that an estimated 13 percent of the 10,000 soldiers in the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) were children, and that some paramilitary forces linked to the government were also using children.In 2016 the MILF allowed 1,869 children to leave and committed not to recruit children any more.