Child Poverty Children, Youth and Family Issues

Child Poverty Children, Youth and Family Issues

Child Poverty

The Children's Rights Category focuses on the rights of children worldwide. It includes organizations who are working on behalf of children's rights as well as information documenting the status of children living in marginal conditions and children's rights violations.

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- Multilingual human and children's rights across the world.
- Working toward creating a world where all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion.
- Promotes children's rights to survival, growth and development, protection and participation through information exchange and database building.
- A local NGO dedicated to furthering children's rights in Cambodia. Helps reduce child trafficking, child labour and school drop-out.
- An internet resource offering a range of accessible, child health related, on-line services to include: databases and other information on issues related to the well-being of the children worldwide.
- A non-profit, charitable organization run by and for young people, aged 14 to 24, who are or have been in the care of child welfare authorities across Canada.
- Information on the children of Chechnya who survive in freezing and dark basements while warplanes bomb the capital.
- Dedicated to helping the children of Iran.
- A photographic documentary on children living in orphanages, psychiatric hospitals of Russia, Moldova and the underground of Bucharest Romania.
- The site presents the Convention on the Rights of the Child, FAQ and opinion on its relevance to children in United States.
- An international organization that develops and implements projects designed to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged children.
- A non-profit organization that provides basic necessities such as food, clothing and shelter to Russian orphans and homeless children.
- Seeks to change attitudes and generate support for children's rights through campaigns in the UK and other countries.
- Swiss registered charity organization supporting children in need in Northern Thailand and its bordering provinces in Burma and Laos.
- A UK human rights group lobbying to protect children's rights and the persecuted church with a very extensive links page on human rights.
- A report by a team of citizens on the impact of the Gujarat pogrom on children and the young.
- Lutheran organization devoted to helping Guatemala's urban poor. History, mission, and volunteer opportunities.
- Comprehensive information and reports on human rights violations against children around the world.
- A network of independent organizations working across the world to help children affected by war.
- A non-profit organization working in Costa Rica and Nicaragua to break the cycle of poverty by taking the children off the streets and putting them into the classroom.
- Funds projects to improve the lives of children living in poverty in developing countries. Projects and grant information.
- The site is an interactive resource center for the exchange of information on the well being of children including children's rights world wide.
- Analysis of the United States policy that establishes the USA as being one of only two countries in the world that have not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Information on NILA, a national network of public and private organizations, individuals, youth and foster parents committed to independent living and transitional living services for older at-risk youth and their families.
- Information on children and their rights and the responsibility and authority of the Commissioner's Office.
- Working in partnership with other ABA entities, bar associations, and local and state advocacy groups to monitor and influence juvenile justice policy and practice.
- A child-focused, non-profit development organization aiding deprived children in developing countries.
- A photographic essay about the children of Mostar, Bosnia by Dutch actor/photographer Thom Hoffman.
- A private initiative to promote children's rights and welfare the world over.
- An international report by the Human Rights Watch on the status of children in Russian orphanages.
- Point Hope's mission is to help starving children in the Buduburham refugee camp in Ghana, Africa.
- Extensive information on the promotion and protection of human rights, children's rights and fundamental freedoms including reports, documents, treaties and policy.
- Information on the services and activities of a New Delhi based NGO working on behalf of the rights and wellbeing of more than 35000 children and their families living in slums and villages in India.
- A non-profit organization founded by US Army soldiers serving in Iraq and other individuals in the United States that helps children in the Nineveh Province of Iraq. Information on orphanage programs, school programs, and the Nineveh Province.
- A non-profit, youth-run organization that engages students across the nation in projects and campaigns aimed at ending child poverty in Canada.
- A nonprofit organization in Washington state that supports the humanitarian efforts of the United States military by providing medical and educational supplies to children in war-torn areas of Iraq. News, photos, events, and donation information.
- Working to establish children's rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behaviour.
- News and information about children's rights including links to UN treaties and international efforts on behalf children.
- Information on the issues, dangers and challenges facing children who live in zones of conflict, from Sierra Leone and Angola to South Asia to Central America.
- A virtual Children's Parliament, by children, for children, with information, links and discussion forums on issues concerning the survival, protection, development and rights of children.
- An overview of the child rights violations worldwide.
- Description of programs dedicated toward eliminating the exploitation of children around the world, by encouraging children to volunteer in and create programs and activities that relieve the plight of underprivileged children.
- An organization founded by students to help Iraqi children. School supply, baby products, and soldier care-package programs.
- This site observes that many children are unloved and unwanted with millions living in poverty and many others die prematurely each year.
- Extensive documents and declarations on human rights including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Tragic accident brings three communities together to build a school in Ecuador. Organization run by children, for children gets the work done.
- Supports the efforts of American soldiers to assist Iraqi children. School supply kit program, forum, and media center.
- Contributes to the elimination of child labour in tobacco growing and seeks to improve the living standards of children.

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