Patricio Nouveau was born in France in 1971 and educated in Spain. He graduated in Law and has an international aid worker since 1992. He was the youngest speaker at the 5th International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994). In 1996 he worked on the Hispano-Peruvian Cooperation Programme for Training of the Judicial Powers and in supporting the agricultural producers of the Bolivian Altiplano. In 1997 he addressed the Franco-African Summit in Ouagadougou, Bur­kina Faso. From Brazzaville, he reported to the Obser­va­toire Français de la Cooperation Inter­na­tionale on the impoverishment of the former colonies. From Freetown, he exposed the situation of child soldiers fighting in the civil war in Sierra Leone. In the same year he supervised the demobilisation of rebel UNITA troops, a group that has at least 7,000 child soldiers. At the end of 1998 Patricio Nouveau disappeared in Angola.