Angola is a country that faced 27 years of conflict, from 2002 facing its peaceful moments. The situation with former girls soldiers during this process is not appropriately addressed, and this brings reflection on both human rights and development structure. The unknown social reintegrations done by Christian Child Fund Angola was responsible for solving those problems. Those pioneer solutions resolved the issue during and after the conflicts. Former girls soldiers need to be recognised in the current Law of Former and Disable Combatants. A vector of rights for the public health framework looks at the holistic structure of former girls soldiers and the needs that should follow to reintegrate this group since they are marginalised. The study is based on qualitative research and an abductive approach. Therefore, a vector of rights approach for public health framework was used focusing on the social reintegration programs done by CCF Angola together with other actors. This will reflect on the law of former combatants, which is a direct result of the formal DDR Program. The results show that there are still women, former girls soldiers that were not reintegrated yet and still marginalized in the current social context. The State needs to revise the Law 13/02 favouring former girl ex-combatants since the reintegration process done by CCF/Angola matches the UN International Human Rights Standards for Law Enforcement.

[pt] Esta dissertação examina as políticas de proteção à criança-soldado no contexto do conflito armado da região dos Kivus, no leste da República Democrática do Congo. A investigação se propõe a analisar de que forma são aplicadas as normas, regras e tratados de proteção às crianças-soldado estabelecidos no sistema internacional na complexidade e particularidade de um conflito local. À luz da hipótese de que as políticas elaboradas na esfera internacional podem encontrar entraves para sua aplicação local efetiva devido a fatores históricos, sociais, políticos, geográficos e econômicos, investigamos como essa execução foi operacionalizada pelo programa de Desarmamento, Desmobilização e Reintegração (DDR) na missão de manutenção da paz da ONU na República Democrática do Congo, a MONUC. / [en] This dissertation examines the politics of protection to the child soldier in the context of the armed conflict in the Kivus Region, east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The investigation proposes itself to analyse in which way the norms, rules and treaties of protection of the child soldiers stablished in the international system are applied in the complexity and particularity of a local conflict. In light of the hypothesis that the politics elaborated in the international sphere can find obstacles to its effective local application due to historical, social, political geographical and economic factors, we investigate how this execution were operationalized in the program for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) in the ONU’s peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.