Additional Links

Social Entrepreneurs
The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck and to provide new ways to get it unstuck. He or she finds what is not working and solves the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution and persuading entire societies to take new leaps. Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry. Covers human rights, health, environment and civic participation, different regions, links, newsletter and ways to get involved with volunteering as intern.

ADM Online America’s Defense Monitor Online
Child Combatants Transcript. Produced Sept 1998. Show on the use of child soldiers where hundreds of thousands of children are still used in armed conflicts.

2^nd Asia Regional Literacy Forum
Literacy Online
Papers on literacy and development. Research, books, policy, innovations, technology, development, culture, gender issues for example by African journalists. They provide links to projects they are involved with such as the street children project.

ASC Associates
List of Individuals working on projects for the girl child and development. Good contact list of individuals who are working on projects.

Asia Partnership for Human Development
Projects, newsletter, news, regions and links. Deals with trafficking of girls and child labor

Asia Point Network
Women’s Rights links on many topics. Plus 18,000 listings and search engines to search Asia. Comprehensive information on many topics for all of Asia; education, information and news health resources. Available in many languages including Chinese, Esperanto, Italian, Polish, Russian, Taiwanese, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, German, Korean, Romanian, and Swedish

Annosoor Assaghe
(Young Eagles) is a youth led NGO working in Cairo, Egypt.
It is a member organization of the International Falcon Movement - Socialist Educational International. Get the perspective of the youth living in Egypt on various issues concerning the Middle East.

Captive Daughters
A California non profit working on stopping the trafficking of girls. Outlines steps to stop this practice.

Child Workers in Asia
CWA
Newsletter, related links, children’s voices, graph on child labor in Thailand, bibliography on child labor

Child Protection in the Philippines
Philippine Resource Network. Resources and Children’s Page. Archives of articles and projects.

California Women’s Agenda
Task Force on the Girl Child. Issues and strategic objectives for the girl child in California. The plight of the girl child is also in the Golden State and this site addresses the facts and solutions that are needed.

Child Relief and You
Providing basic needs to children. Child issues, projects, get involved, CRY India.

Conference of NGO
Learn how to get your NGO involved in the UN on a consultative status, 2000 NGO’s now hold that privledge. Also information on NGO’s access to UN and much more.

Deepalaya.org
Projects, newsletter, get involved with girl child projects.

Disabilities Information Resource
Resources, links, Designing for universal accessibility . Mirror sites in Japan, Europe and USA. Social Integration as Related to Children.

Education—TSHWARANANG (word in Sotho neaning "We are holding each other") Legal Advocacy Centre to End Violence Against Women in South Africa
Connections, Resources, Publications, campaigns including on the girl child.

Embassy of Japan in Indi
Press release of funds to help NGO’s with various projects to help grassroots organizations that are working to improve children’s lives.

Gender, Science and Technolog
Policies and activities of UN organizations--UNICEF
In keeping with the Convention on the Rights of the Child to have children fulfill their potential.

Gillia
Case study on how life skills are taught in Uganda.

Global Forum for Health Research to improve the mental health of poor people

Global Information Networks in Education
Basic education for children, youth, and women around the world. Many links to other sites by topic and region on related education issues. Also has documents and a Forum at the Improving Education Quality project In English and French. Plus newsletter, photos, regions, additional links and research tools.

Human rights International Alliance
Children’s and women’s rights, links, country reports, seminars, hotline for human rights, human rights education. RSAC approved site.

Human Rights of Women and the Girl Child
Bibliography and International law links of the Human Rights of Women and the Girl Child
Link to home page

Ohio Northern University
International Law Society
Current Events in International Law, Glossary of Human Rights Terms

International Children’s Center
Founded in Turkey dedicated to help children of all ages. Promotes education for health, women’s health issues and is global advocate. Photos, news, events.

ICDI
International Child Development Initiatives
An advocate for marginalized children, international development support agency, a forum for policy, practice, program developemnt and research, a partner in international networks for children and youth, a liason between NGO’s and donors-An independent non profit non-governmental organization. Excellent bibliography, and ongoing projects

Indian Mother
Development of adoption program. Articles, news, tools for adopting children, resources for children with links to kids page and children’s stories.

Inter-Church Coalition on Africa
Programs, countries of Kenya, Sudan, Nigeria, Congo-Kinshasa, Angola. Urgent actions, HIV/AIDS, publications and links

Kyrgyzstan
There are several elements to the situation of women in Kyrgyzstan that reflect former Soviet policy and traditional values. At independence, the level of education of females was high and sometimes superior to that of males, families were usually large with 4-5 children, in 1991 83% of all women participated in the labor force predominantly in education, health, cultural and art sectors. The state provided generous benefits to women including long maternity leave, time of to care for sick children, child allowances, etc. Today there are big differences

LearningChannel.org
Educational links to many resources concerning education issues

NGO’s Network for Health
Non-governmental partnerships to foster and support child survival and HIV/Aids and other issues. Related Links, Publications, Country updates

Official Ghana Education Home Page
The Ghana education web site--History, NGO’s working in Ghana, visions for the future.

OWL
Links to other sites in Russian and English

Quaker United Nations
A non-governmental organisation focusing on human rights, refugees, peace and disarmament, and trade and development. Links, reports, based in UN office in Geneva.

Q Web
World wide network for exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas on women’s health and gender issues. In Swedish and English.

Reporting People.org
Links, Issues and Reports on women, environment, population, health, children, human development, development and economics and crime

Tibetan Women Association Homepage
NGO report submitted to the UN Committee on the status of Women April 2000

United States Agency for International Development
Federal program to give humanitarian aid to promote political and economic security of developing countries. Regional reports, partner resources, news and information including women in development.

UNAIDS
The girl child vulnerability to HIV/Aids. Links and Information for this cosponsored programme - the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The six original Cosponsors of UNAIDS - UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, WHO.

UNED
Education Conference Information plus links, projects, capacity building, research, publications,partnerships to promote universal primary education. UNED is a unique multi stakeholder non-governmental organization which promotes the outcomes from the Earth summit of 1992 and upcoming 2002 Earth summit.

WIN
Women’s InterCultural Network
Supporting women’s issues around the world

Witness
Using Video and Technology to fight for human rights—Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. Links, video, newsletter, get involved, take action. Excellent Classroom tool for High School. Be Advised some of the information and graphics may upset some students.

Women Human Rights Issues
The girl child facts and mechanisms for change as well as links to documents

Women 2000 Japan NGO Report The Girl Child
Policies, programs and how obstacles are being overcome

Women’s Action at the UN General Assembly
The girl child speaks out at the United Nations. Plus links to work on the girl child in other regions of the world. Beijing +5 report and other reports some in English, Spanish and French. Links to news bulletins, radio broadcasts and interactive TV. Follow the UN own live webcast.

Women’s Action
Women’s Action is a communications and media network that enables NGO’s to actively engage in the Beijing+5 report. Site comes in English, Spanish and French.

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scout
Documents, web site links, world projects from around the world.

World YMCA
Programs and projects on many issues related to girls and on Human Rights focusing on girls and women from associations all over the world. Young women’s web a forum for girls to speak out on issues, links to sites, publications.