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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.
Association François-Xavier
Bagnoud
This association focuses on the
health and human rights of children-including
HIV/AIDS, and has specialized projects on children's
rights and child labor.
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.
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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 Children and Armed
Conflict
Child
Labor
Trafficking
Female Genital
Mutilation
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. Child
Health
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