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- General Children's Rights
- American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
The Center on Children and the Law strives to improve children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice, and public policy. - Center for World Indigenous Studies
The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) is an independent, non-profit [U.S. 501(c)(3)] research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations. - Children's Defense Fund
CDF provides a voice for children and ensures that all children have a healthy, fair, safe, and moral start in life. - Child Rights Information Network
CRIN is a global network of organizations sharing information about children's rights in relation to labor, AIDS/HIV, sexual exploitation, armed conflict, disabilities, and the media. - Children's House
Children's House is an interactive resource center - a meeting place for the exchange of information that serves the well being of children. - Child Welfare League of America
The CWLA is the oldest and largest national nonprofit organization developing and promoting policies and programs to protect America's children and strengthen America's families. - Children, Youth and Family Consortium - Electronic Clearinghouse, University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota is nationally recognized for its scholarship and resources on children, youth and family issues, and many faculty, departments and centers across the University are engaged in addressing the most pressing concerns faced by families and the communities in which they live. Since its inception in 1991, the Children, Youth & Family Consortium has been charged with providing coordination, coherence, and a larger sense of purpose to these diverse University-wide efforts. - Covenant House
Covenant House is a childcare agency providing shelter and service to homeless and runaway youth throughout North America. - Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Division
The Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project monitors and campaigns against human rights abuses of children around the world. - Save the Children
The International Save the Children Alliance, comprising 26 organizations operating in over 100 countries, works to protect the rights of children.
link to the USA site. - US Committee for UNICEF
This branch of UNICEF works for the survival, protection, and development of children worldwide through education, advocacy, and fundraising. - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- UNICEF
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Children and Armed Conflict
- Children of War
- Impact of Armed Conflict on Children
A UNICEF official report, published 26 August 1996. - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Articles, databases, and human rights lesson plans on child refugees and soldiers are available online. -
Child Labor
- Anti-Slavery International
Anti-Slavery International campaigns for freedom of laborers who are in situations of slavery or slavery-like practices. Publications and videos are available for purchase, as well as a subscription to a quarterly newsletter. - Child Labor Coalition
CLC serves as a network for the exchange of information regarding child labor, ending child labor, protecting working minors, and educating the public about child labor issues. - International Labor Organization (ILO)
IPEC works with partner organizations to prevent child labor and improve the working conditions of children who are unable to withdraw from the workforce immediately. Publications and reports are available online. - U.S. Department of Labor,
Bureau of International Labor Affairs,
International Child Labor Program (ICLP)
ICLP investigates, researches, and reports on the state of child labor internationally. Publications are available on line. -
Trafficking
- ECPAT International (End Child Prostitution, Pornography, and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes)
ECPAT is a global network of organizations and individuals that work to protect children from sexual exploitation by supporting activists, rehabilitating child victims of sex abusers, and providing consultation to governments. - Focal Point on Sexual Exploitation of Children
This Defense for Children International affiliated NGO is a wide-ranging partnership to combat the sexual exploitation of children. - Paul and Lisa Program
The Paul and Lisa Program provides prevention information and intervention assistance for youth at risk of sexual exploitation in the United States. -
Female Genital Mutilation
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Female Genital Mutilation: An Amnesty International Human Rights Report
This report answers common questions regarding FGM, as well as country-specific information. - Equality Now
Equality Now is an international human rights organization dedicated to action for the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women. It publishes Awaken, a periodical dedicated to stopping FGM. - National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC)
NOCIRC educates the public about the right of children to keep their sexual organs intact. - RAINBO (Research Action Information Network for Bodily Integrity of Women)
RAINBO works on health issues that impact women's human rights in Africa and African immigrant and refugee communities. -
Juvenile Justice
- American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
The Center on Children and the Law strives to improve children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice, and public policy. - Death Penalty Information Center
The web-site provides extensive statistics about juveniles in the U.S. Justice System. - Human Rights Internet
HRI is dedicated to the empowerment of human rights activists and organizations, and to the education of governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials and other actors in the public and private sphere, on human rights issues and the role of civil society. - Juvenile Justice Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ)
CJCJ is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce society's reliance on the use of incarceration as a solution to social problems. - National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
The NCADP is a coalition of organizations and individuals that provides information, advocates for public policy, and mobilizes and supports people committed to abolishing capital punishment. - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
OJJDP works with federal, state, and local agencies and organizations to develop, fund, and evaluate criminal and juvenile justice programs. -
Street Children
- Casa Alianza
Casa Alianza is an independent, non profit organisation dedicated to the rehabilitation and defense of street children in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua. Casa Alianza is the Latin American branch of the New York-based Covenant House. -
Online Reference Materials
- Elizabethtown College World Wide Web Virtual Library,
International Affairs Resources
This section of the WWW Virtual Library system presents over 2000 annotated links in a range of international affairs topics. Most of the sites are in English, and are carefully selected for long-term value, favoring those with cost-free, high-quality information and analysis online. - Inter-American Human Rights Digest Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
The Washington College of Law has a long commitment to human rights and to the rule of law internationally. Established in 1990, the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law serves to coordinate many of WCL's human rights efforts. - University of Minnesota Human Rights Library