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Children’s Rights International Links to Other Web SitesThis page provides a list of links to other web sites that may be of interest. Note Children’s Rights International does not endorse any of these sites and they are listed here only for your information. Academy on Human Rights & Humanitarian Law African Regional Youth Initiative The African Regional Youth Initiative (ARYI) is a collaboration of youth and community-based projects and organizations in Africa working to fight HIV/AIDS and malaria. In recognition of the call for support of community-based organizations issued by the Atlanta Declaration on HIV/AIDS and malaria in Africa, ARYI supports community action through community mobilization, rural development, and advocacy as strategies to combat these diseases. The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Watch The Forum was established in 1996 following the first regional meeting of national human rights institutions from the Asia Pacific. This meeting was also attended by a number of regional governments and non-governmental organisations. At this meeting the institutions adopted the Larrakia Declaration which set out important principles governing the functioning of national human rights institutions. To advance these objectives, the national human rights institutions decided to establish a regional organisation, which they called the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions. Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies and the Centre for Community Welfare Training The Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies (ACWA) was founded as a peak body in 1958 New South Wales (Australia) with the objectives of supporting non government agencies and improving the quality of services to children and young people who need to live away from their families. Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law Washington College of Law established this Center in 1990 to work with students, faculty and the international legal community to provide scholarship and support for human rights initiatives around the world. Children First Children First is committed to presenting African perspectives on the situation of children in South Africa and Africa. Childsoldiers.org This site aims to give voice to children and young people affected by war. Childtrafficking.com
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[English] Defence for Children International Defence for Children International (DCI) is an independent non-governmental organisation set up during the International Year of the Child (1979) to ensure on-going, practical, systematic and concerted international action specially directed towards promoting and protecting the rights of the child. Development Goals The Millennium Development Goals commit the international community to an expanded vision of development, one that vigorously promotes human development as the key to sustaining social and economic progress in all countries, and recognizes the importance of creating a global partnership for development. The goals have been commonly accepted as a framework for measuring development progress. Doctors Without Borders Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors Without Borders or MSF) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation. See also Visit a Refugee Camp Virtual Tour. Eldis: Children and Young People Resource Guide Eldis is an internet based information service: filtering, structuring and presenting development information via the web and email. It maintains a growing library of editorially selected and abstracted online documents, and an organisational directory of development-related internet services. European Court of Human Rights Free the Children Free The Children is an international network of children helping children at a local, national and international level through representation, leadership and action. It was founded by Craig Kielburger in 1995, when he was 12 years old. The primary goal of the organization is not only to free children from poverty and exploitation, but to also free children and young people from the idea that they are powerless to bring about positive social change and to improve the lives of their peers. FOCAL POINT against Sexual Exploitation of Children The Focal Point Programme (FPP) is one of the two programmes of the NGO Group for the CRC and was created by the Co-organisers of the Stockholm World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children - the Government of Sweden, UNICEF, the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Ecpat - to facilitate the co-ordination of global action to combat child sexual abuse, exploitation and violence. Its scope was intended to be broader than that of the Congress in order to better address the root causes. Hague Conference on Private International Law The Hague Conference is an intergovernmental organization, the purpose of which is "to work for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law. The principal method used to achieve this purpose consists in the negotiation and drafting of multilateral treaties (conventions) in the different fields of private international law (e.g. international judicial and administrative co-operation; conflict of laws for contracts, torts, maintenance obligations, status and protection of children, relations between spouses, wills and estates or trusts; jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgments). Human Rights Research and Education Centre Virtual Human Rights Library. Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. It aims to stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. It investigates and exposes human rights violations and attempts hold abusers accountable. Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly. Human Rights Without Frontiers Int. HRWF is independent of all political, ideological or religious movements. Its object is to promote democracy, the rule of law and the rights of the individual - man, woman and child - everywhere in the world, by every appropriate means. Nobody carrying out a political mandate (including representing a political party in exile) or being a cleric can be a member of the board of directors. Inter-American Children's Institute International Committee of the Red Cross The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted by the Movement in situations of conflict. It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. Established in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 17 July 1998, when 120 States participating in the "United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court" adopted the Statute. This is the first ever permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to promote the rule of law and ensure that the gravest international crimes do not go unpunished. See also: International Criminal Court: Resources in Print and Electronic Format International Development Law Organization As IDLO celebrated its twentieth year in 2003, its mission to promote the rule of law and good governance has never been more relevant. Hunger, homelessness and disease continued to plague the lives of the more than 1.2 billion people living on less than one dollar per day. Part of the way out of such poverty is to maintain a justice system in which such people are guaranteed rights and a voice. In 2003, even the wealthier were challenged to find a response to extremism while preserving the universal rights and values on which their successes have been built. But relevance of mission only provided focus. The IDLO program provided a response. In 2003, IDLO began a sustained effort to align its work with the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and secure sustained improvements in the legal sector in those states with which it works. International Juvenile Justice Observatory The International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) is a virtual service, concieved as a comprehensive interdisciplinary system, for informing, communicating, debating, analysing and making proposals for the different areas that affect the development of Juvenile Justice all over the world. This service is to be found at a web site in a portal to which the general public has access, and the contents are written in the Spanish language, as well as other languages. Any social agents, professionals, institutions and organisations anywhere in the world who feel involved in or are concerned about the subject matter may take part. It has been set up with a view to being rigorous and independent in its work, in its thoughts and ideas, and in its proposals concerning Juvenile Justice. This is, concerning minors and youth in social difficulty, with behavioral problems, and as a result, in conflict with the Law. The “Observatorio Internacional de Justicia Juvenil”, and this organisation by any other name in other languages, was set up by virtue of the agreement reached by the Fundación Diagrama [Diagrama Trust] on the fourteenth day of January in the year two thousand and three, at the proposal of the General Management of the Trust, after a report had been issued by the National Training and Research Management of the aforementioned Trust. It is established as an Independent Body and charitable organisation that belongs to the internal structure of the Fundación Diagrama, and that this decision has been taken with a view to expressing their international vocation to serve. International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Aims to support individuals and organizations working to protect children from abuse and neglect worldwide. ISPAC International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme. National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children NCMEC was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit organization to provide services for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children. It serves as a clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited children, offers training programs to law-enforcement and social-service professionals and distributes photographs and descriptions of missing children worldwide. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Aims to alert Governments and the world community to the daily reality that these standards are too often ignored or unfulfilled, and to be a voice for the victims of human rights violations everywhere. It is also aims to press the international community to take the steps that can prevent violations, including support for the right to development. Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General Includes information such as the Latest Statements, Press Releases, Daily Schedule, Global Fund, Article 19 countries, Budget Honour Roll, Messengers of Peace, Sanctions and more. Oxfam Community Aid Abroad Oxfam Community Aid Abroad is an Australian, independent, not-for-profit, secular, community-based aid and development organisation. Across 31 countries in East and South Asia, Africa, the Pacific, Central America and Indigenous Australia, we work in partnership with local communities to overcome poverty and injustice. Plan International Plan is an independent organisation dedicated to working with and for children. We believe that all children deserve their basic rights to health, education and a future where they can reach their full potential. Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders is an association officially recognised as serving the public interest. Reporters Without Borders' maintains this trilingual (French, English and Spanish) website in order to keep a daily tally of attacks on press freedom as they occur throughout the world. Updated several times a day, it functions like a press-freedom news agency. It gives Internet users an opportunity to act as a group to demand the release of jailed journalists by signing on-line petitions. To circumvent censorship, it presents occasionally articles that have been banned in their country of origin, hosts newspapers that have been closed down in their homeland and serves as a forum where journalists who have been "silenced" by authorities can voice their opinions. This website, which welcomes 35,000 to 45,000 visitors per month, also provides complete reports on cases covered in the press, as well as a daily "barometer" summarising the most recent attacks on press freedom. Save the Children Save the Children was founded in the United States in 1932 as a nonprofit child-assistance organization to make lasting positive change in the lives of children in need. Today we work in 19 states across the United States as well as in 47 other countries in the developing world to help children and families improve their health, education and economic opportunities. We also mobilize rapid life-support assistance for children and families caught in the tragedies of natural and man-made disasters. Save the Children is a member of the International Save the Children Alliance, an association of 26 independent organizations that provide child-oriented emergency response, development assistance and advocacy of children's rights in more than 100 countries. Science and Development Network The overall aim of the SciDev.Net is to enhance the provision of reliable and authoritative information on science- and technology-related issues that impact on the economic and social development of developing countries. Stop Human Traffic In November 2001, Anti-Slavery launched a two-year campaign against human trafficking. During the course of the campaign we aim to raise awareness of this global problem and call for national and international policy changes that will: protect the human rights of trafficked persons Anti-Slavery International www.antislavery.org is the world's oldest international human rights organisation, founded in 1839. It is the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and related abuses. Through research, campaigning and awareness raising we work at local, national and international levels to eliminate slavery around the world. UNICEF UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and strives to establish children's rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behaviour towards children. United Nations The United Nations was established on 24 October 1945 by 51 countries committed to preserving peace through international cooperation and collective security. Today, nearly every nation in the world belongs to the UN: membership totals 191 countries. The United Nations is not a world government and it does not make laws. It does, however, provide the means to help resolve international conflicts and formulate policies on matters affecting all of us. At the UN, all the Member States - large and small, rich and poor, with differing political views and social systems - have a voice and a vote in this process. The United Nations has six main organs. Five of them - the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council and the Secretariat - are based at UN Headquarters in New York. The sixth, the International Court of Justice, is located at The Hague in the Netherlands. War Child - Canada Founded in 1999, War Child Canada works across North America and around the world to assist children affected by war. War Crimes and Criminals [English] To add or correct a reference and link please complete the resources form. Home, Welcome, What’s New?, About the CRI, Media Information, Foundation Committee, Resources and Links, Journal, Contact Us, Search
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