Following the signing of a historic peace accord in November 2006 between the Maoist rebels and Nepalese government, the decade-long armed conflict came to an end and one of the key agreements in the peace process was to release child soldiers from the Maoists' army and militia groups.

But child rights defenders say that most of those children categorised as CAAFAG have not been released by the Maoists. The Maoist leaders, however, denied there were any child soldiers among their units. Activists are now pinning their last hopes on the second phase of arms registration, supervised by the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN), which they hope will confirm CAAFAG's charges by next month.