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BeavertonandBeyond.org
Why Service?  Participating in service will not only benefit the world around you but it will also help you become a stronger, more capable and self-confident person. Everyone wins! When you see that you can make a difference in the lives of others, you will realize the power that one person can have in making the world a better place! Service can take many forms, from simple acts of kindness to community wide action. We each have something special and unique to contribute!

A guide for Young People
United Nations General Assembly – Special Session on Children. Wanted young people’s voices and participation.

Child Rights Education International
In English, French, Portuguese, Turkish, Child rights links, education programs

Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch
NNews, resources, legal standards, links to organizations

Children’s House in Cyber Space
Children's House is an interactive resource center - a meeting place for the exchange of information that serves the well being of children. There is an excellent list of links, resources and much more for kids under the information resources link.

Child Soldiers
Links and articles on many topics. Get search engine to put on your school web site so students can directly search this site.

Defense for Children International
NGO’s, International conventions, Links, protecting the human rights of the child, representing 60 countries

Free the Children
International network of children helping children for children and teachers

Idealist.ORG
Action without borders, (Spanish and English over 4,000 links on topics and organizations concerning children from all over the world)

Global Youth Connect
Resources, Human Rights for Youth helping Youth

Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights
Links, information, projects, actions to be taken

International Youth Rights Alliance
Central hub for youth rights supporters. Information, research, articles, raising awareness, write letters and more.

Children Rights Information Network
List of over 1,000 child rights organizations dedicated to helping children around the world:

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A.P. Alliance for Child Rights

Action contre l'Exploitation de l'Enfant et de la Femme
ACEEF is a non-political and non- profitmaking NGO. It's principal objective is the struggle against all forms of exploitation against women and children, which is effected through working towards the implementation of national and international conventions in relation to child rights and the rights of women.

Action for Children and Youth Aotearoa
Action for Children in Aotearoa works to monitor and implement the CRC in New Zealand. New Zealand ratified CRC in 1993. The Government submitted its second periodic report to UN CRC in early 2001.

Action for People Through the Promotion of the Arts
To work for the socio-economic and cultural development of society.

Action for the Rights of the Children
Action for the Rights of the Children works to monitor and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child nationally in Japan.

Action on Disability and Development - Ghana

Actions Pro - Madagascar

ADT Quart Monde

Adult Education for Development
To provide relevant opportunities for adults and out of school youths. The design of programmes which arise out of and meet the needs of adults and out of school youths.

Adventist Development And Relief Agency
Assists those in need without regard to ethnic, political or religious affiliation.

African Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

African Child Association
Protection and Promotion of Child Rights.

African Community 2000
Main activities are assistance of orphan children in education and skills training,assisting street children in obtaining employment and training, care for children with HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS education

African Development Programme
Child sponsorship, school building, rehabilitation, PTA/SMC training, Community mobilisation and participation, education programmes, peer counselling, non-official conflict management methods, economic and social measures, political development and governance measures.

African Institute for Social and Economic Development

African Movement of Working Children and Youth
The African Movement of Working Children and Youth is organised from hundreds of 'grass roots' groups of domestic girls, self-employed street workers, and apprentices throughout Africa.

African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect - Ethiopia Chapter

African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect - Jinja District
This organisation serves as a district centre for the prevention and protection against child abuse and neglect, promotion of the defence and advocacy of children's rights and responsibilities.

African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect - Jinja District Group, Uganda
To serve as a district centre for the prevention and protection against child abuse and neglect as well as for the promotion, defence, and advocacy of children's rights and responsibilities. Activities: Advocacy - on child rights and responsibilities Research - form and magnitude of child abuse and neglect Networking with sister NGOs Membership development

African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect - Kenya Chapter
ANPPCAN Kenya operates as a national resource centre on child abuse, neglect and children's rights. We provide information and technical expertise on child protection and child rights issues, carry you research on emerging children's issues and lobby governments, donors, other NGO's and communities on behalf of the rights of the child.

African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect - Regional Office

African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child abuse and Neglect - Zimbabwe Chapter

African Rights
African Rights is dedicated to working issues of human rights abuse, conflict, famine and civil reconstruction in Africa. African Rights believes that any solution to Africa's Problems must be sought primarily among Africans.

Agência de Notícias dos Direitos da Infância
A Rede ANDI, criada em março de 2000, é uma parceria entre a ANDI e organizações regionais de comunicação pela infância e adolescência.

Agir pour les Femmes en Situation Precaire
AFESIP provides assistance and socio-economic help to women and children in difficult circumstances. AFESIP focuses in particular on sexual exploitation of children and asolescents.

Agyapomaa Societal Needs Int.
- Campaign against child maltreatment - Help protect children from child labour - Help to educate the masses on the rights of the child.

Aktionsgruppe Babynahrung E.V.

Al-Haq
Al-Haq's program of activities includes monitoring and documentation of human rights violations as well as maintaining a database and library on public law and human rights and particularly Women and children's rights and labour issues.

Albanian Children's Rights Network
Albanian Children's Rights Network work to monitor and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child nationally in Albania

Albanian Orphans Association
To protect the life of orphans and to help them live in wealthy families and not in orphanages To provided economic, social and moral support for orphans.

Alianza Para el Desarollo Juvenil Comunitario
Human & child rights, ecology, community development and other development projects.

Alif Laila Book Bus Society
Providing meaningful education to children from disadvantaged, social and economic backgrounds, especially girls.

All Age Development Centre
All Age Development Centre works with street chidlren, children with disabilities and orphans.

All Ukranian Committee for Children's Rights
All Ukranian Committee for Children's Rights works to monitor and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child nationally in the Ukraine.

Alliance Congolaise pour les Droits de l'Enfant
Alliance Congolaise pour les Droits de l'Enfant work to monitor and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child nationally in Congo.

Alliance des Enfants pour la Protection de l'Environnement
to constitute a family of children and youth who want to make the earth cleaner and greener. The organisation intends to promote children and youth activities by education environmental action and communication.

Alliance For Inclusive Education
We are a membership organisation of disabled people, parents, young people, professionals and allies who are campaigning for a cghange in UK law to give every child the right to mainstream education.

Alliance l'enfant et la paix
childr rights advocacy, education with special interest on child soldiers issues

Amal Friends of Children Society

Ambition 2000 and Beyond Foundation
Ambition 2000 works in the following areas Rehabilitation of street children. Provide a daycentre. Organise workshops and seminars on the CRC http://194.129.49.222/members.nsf/7 ffaaffb5636c2b5802563310036370b/ 8159da2670a1cde68025670e004971 6c?OpenDocument

Amnesty Interational - Tunisian Section
Working for the release of prisoners of conscience and campaigning against torture, child recruitment, FGM and capital punishment. Education in relation to human rights.

Amnesty International - International Secretariat
Amnesty International contributes to the observance throughout the world of human rights as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Amnesty International Nicro: Teaching for Freedom
This is a joint Amnesty International/Nicro project to train Police, Social Workers and Probation Workers working with children allegedly in conflict with the law. The project ends in June 1998 but may be extended for a further 2 years.

Amnesty International UK, MPG - Military Profession's Group
MPG is a special group of Military and Ex-military personnel and people employed by the Military, who use their knowledge and experience to campaign on behalf of Human Rights as laid down in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights.

Andhra Pradesh Urban and Rural Social Development Society

Angolan Action for Nutrition, Community Health and Family
Promote infant nutrition programmes for ages 0 to 5 and working in the area of community health.

Angus Social Work Department
Social welfare, poverty and social inequality, protection of well-being.

Animators for Rural Multipurpose Development Society
Our programmes include - community based Rehabilitation of the rural disabled, especially children, organisation of village communities, formation of village-level peoples organisations (youth, women, small and marginal farmers associations and parent-teacher associations) and undertaking integrated rural development programmes.

Anita Home
Anita Home is a home for orphaned street girls, with couples volunteering to 'adopt' the girls. In Anita Home they receive all basic human requirements and the right to receive and education thus becoming informed citizens. The project is an initiative of Koinonia Community.

Anti-Child Abuse Society of Africa
1) Campaign against child abuse 2) Promoting, supervising and monitoring child rights implementation 3) Family health education 4) Adolescent and reproductive health These are intended to enhance child survival and development.

Anti-Slavery International
Anti-Slavery was set up in 1839 with the specific objective of ending slavery throughout the world. Despite our many successful campaigns, slavery continues to exist in the 21st century. Anti-Slavery's work is divided among three teams: Programme, Communication and Information, enabling us to work effectively towards achieving our goal of a slave-free world.

Anusha Mahila Mandali

Arab Council for Childhood and Development
Their main areas of work are with primary education, child labour, street children, disabled children

Arab Institute for Human Rights
Human rights education for children, rights of the child, human rights in the Arab countries.

Arab Resource Collective - Cyprus
ARC's mission is to build on people's assets through knowledge and communication. The general aim of ARC is to co-operate with community- based organisations, working throughout the Arab world, in identifying the needs and challenges they face, and in developing their human resources.

Arab Resource Collective - Lebanon

Arab Resource Collective - UK

Aravind Children's Hospital

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Jugendhilfe National Coalition

Ark Foundation

Article 12
'Article 12' in Scotland is a network of young people who want to do something about youth rights.

Article 31 Action Network

Arunodhaya - Centre for Street Children

Asia Caucus for the 2001 UN General Assembly Special Session on Children
This group was created through the preparatory process for the Special Session on Children and works in Asia to ensure NGO input into the Special Session process.

Asia-Pacific Forum for Child Welfare
The mission of IFCW is to work with children world-wide to improve the quality of their lives and to enhance opportunities for the development of their full potential.

Asociacion Latinoamericana Para Los Derechos Humanos
ALDHU is a regional non- governmental organisation aimed to promote and defend human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. With this end, it encourages peace initiatives and co-ordinates efforts on order to guarantee the effective application of universal and regional human rights instruments which engage States to respect individual and collective rights.

Asociacion Nacional para el Beneficio del Minor Malfratado
Child abuse, child protection, child sexual abuse.

Asociatia Femeilor Din Romania
AFR is a women's initiative set up after the Revolution of 1989. It has grown to be a powerful consolidator of all the NGOs in Romania and enjoys an international prestige, and carries out programmes of promotion and support for the women of Romania.

Assistance for Slum Dwellers
ASD aims to improve the life of slum dwellers, especially women and children, through access to basic facilities. ASD believes access to educaation, health, nutrition and income earning opportunities will improve the condition of slum dwellers and has undertaken programmes in these areas.

Assistance Humanitaire aux Enfants sans Resources
- Fight against under development - Help children in relation to their right to education and scolarisation - Fight against malnutrition - Education in relation to HIV/AIDS - Assist unaccompanied minors.

Associacao Crianca Familia E Desenvolvimento
CFD is currently involved in expanding community services for early childhood which include socialisation, education and protection programs. CFD is also working with youth and adolescents from war affected zones. The aim, is to create local committees as mechanisms of protection and promotion of youth/adolescents interests.

Associacio Beneficente Sao Martinho
Sao Martinho's mission is to renew the human dignity of children and adolescents in conditions of social risk. To provide them with means to develop affection and adopt a more transcendental concept of life. To transform them into citizens, capable of facing up to their future challenges in society.

Association "Mothers of Chechnya for Peace"
To search for missing people in Chechnya. To assist victims of conflict.

Association Against Child Prostitution
Providing information for the young with the ultimate aim of prevention, e.g. exhibitions in universities, videos and billboards. We also aim for housing street children, giving financial support, fighting against child exploitation networks and claiming damages.

Association Appui a la Rue
Improve living conditions of street children in Mali and Burkina Faso; Fight against marginallisation, injustice and poverty; Create a framework of social cohesion and understanding

Association Burkinabe pour la Survie de l'Enfance

Association de Defense des Droits de l'Homme
Created in January 1991, the African Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Congo/Kinshasa (ASADHO) is a group of young lawyers, doctors, and journalists. During the short time since its founding, ASADHO has established branches throughout much of the country and has become one of the country's leading advocates in defense of human rights.

Association de Protection et de Sauvegarde de l'enfance en Danger
Child welfare, child protection

Association des Animateurs Communautaires de Guinee

Association des Enfants et jeunes Travailleurs de Bamako

Association des Enfants et Jeunes Travailleurs de Guinee

Association Femme-Enfant Environnement
The Association aims at initiating all actions contributing to the improvement of women and children's living conditions and to the preservation of the environment.

Association for Child Education Gambia
The organisation aims to promote rural childhood education, rural health care, welfare and rights.

Association for Human Development
Local community based NGO with the aim of seeking the solution to children's problems and achieve a better future for their development. Also to achieve a sound environment and help for sustainable development in communities.

Association For Integrated Development Of Women
Focusing on dissemination of information and awareness of children's rights, adolescent sex education, drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, rights of the girl child

Association For Integrated Medical Services Of India
- general health care - women and child welfare - population and community development.

Association for Rural Community Action

Association François-Xavier Bagnoud
Association François-Xavier Bagnoud was set up in order to offer humanitarian assistance to children in jeopardy due to poverty and/or disease. It strives to develop anti- poverty initiatives which empower the extended family and communities involved.

Association Guineenne pour la Protection de l'enfance

Association Humanitaire Aux Enfants Sans Resources
- Fight against under development - Help children in relation to their right to education and scolarisation - Fight against malnutrition - Education in relation to HIV/AIDS - Assist unaccompanied minors.

Association Mondiale Pour l'Ecole Instrument de PAix
Human rights promotion, children's rights education and sensitisation, human rights training, poor children and orphans in care.

Association of Aid for Disabled Children
The Association works to provide aid for disabled children and teenagers through medical and social rehabilitation. the rehabilitation programme provides financial, legal and material assistance to families and single parents.

Association of Parents of Encephalic Children
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Association Of People For Practical Life Education
APPLE is a non-governmental organisation in non-formal education and community development for youth, women, men and the aged. Apple specialises in adolescent reproductive rights and child rights issues.

Association of Youths Against Malaria
AIMS: To reduce morbidity and mortality as a result of malaria in the under five age group . ACTIVITIES: Grass root community (I.E.C.) on malaria. Prevention and control. Promoting the use of insecticide treated bed nets

Association pour l'alphabetisation at la Formation des Femmes et des Enfants

Association Pour Le Progres Et La Defense Des Droits Des Femmes
Lobbying govenments and the UN, Provide training on children's rights, Undertake legal casework on behalf of children, Undertake research on children's rights, Work directly with children, Work in partnership with other organisations, Work with the media and press.

Association Senegalaise De Protection Et De Promotion Des Droits De L'Enfant Et De La Femme (ASPRODEF)
Helping: - Children in trouble with the law who find themselves in prison - Children in Moral Danger

Associazione Amici dei Bambini
Associazione Amici dei Bambini's activities aim at promoting a child's physical and social growth in the family (natural or adoptive); fighting social exclusion of children by devising suitable individual and group support to children and families. Ai.Bi. has been recognised by the Italian government as a validated NGO for Intercountry Adoption and International Cooperation.

Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau
AIFO is an Italian Non-Governmental Organisation based in Italy, with the head-office in Bologna.

Ataabalaba Religious Youth Organisation
1 - To cater for the interests of Youth 2 - To teach developmental projects to young persons 3 - To give support and counselling to rural youth 4 - To promote unity whilst maintaining cordial relations 5 - Advocate for the interests of members materially or otherwise 6 - Enhance educational benefits to members

Ateneo Human Rights Centre - Child Rights Unit
- The continuing formation of human rights (child rights) advocates among lawyers, law students and grassroots leaders, - public education on human rights, children's rights and the law, - legal assistance to indigent victims of human rights abuses, child rights abuses and to children in conflict with the law, - research and publication.

Australian Institute of Family Studies

Autre Vie
Child protection, child health, promotion of children's rights.

Awake Friends Trust
Awake Friends Trust is a voluntary youth organisation involved in formal and non-formal education and health awareness.

Aycliffe Young People's Centre

Azerbaijan League in Defence of Child Rights
The main goal of the League is to promote implementation of the Convention in Azerbaijan through civil monitoring of state activity towards it and using information of the society concerning observance of children's rights in Azerbaijan. The League also struggles against the exploitation of children's labour for the rights of refugee children , against trade with children, etc

Azerbaijan Women & Development Centre
To improve the status of women, children, refugees, IDP's and vulnerable people.

Azerbaijan Women's Association
The AWA works throughout Azerbaijan. Members total 75000 throughout the whole country, and the organisations has ties with 63 women's organisations in the world. The aims are: - to protect women's rights - to help refugees, families of dead soldiers, disabled, the elderly and orphans - all resulting from the consequences of war.

Baidarie

Bal Niketan Singh
The organisation contributes to the education of children and to the cause of children's and women's welfare.

Bal Sahyog
Bal Sahyog is a social welfare organisation established by Smt. indira Gandhi with a view to make making poor children drawn from various slum and JJ colonies of Delhi self reliant and independent by providing them vocational training and education. Bal Sahyog keeps 120 boys in its home with free board, lodging, educational, medical and other facilities for 3 years.

Balkan Child Rights Initiative
The BCRI is an initiative which is now in its preparatory phase (1 September 1999 - 1 September 2000). Its vision is to establish a widespread network of regional organisations/ or others, and thus create a Balkans Child Rights Centre.

Balkan Coalition for the Protection of Children's Rights
To target Child trafficking and prostitution; child abuse and neglect; child pornography on the internet; juvenile justice issues; street children; child labour.

Bangalore Onlyavara Seva Coota
We are a voluntary organisation, and part of the world wide organisation called Salisions of Don Bosco. We work with street children, concentrating mainly on rehabilitation and home placement

Bangladesh Coalition for Child Rights
A national network of NGOs dedicated to strengthening child rights.

Bangladesh Development Partnership Centre

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers' Association
"Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association is a society of lawyers active in the field of environment for establishing a sound ecological order using legal mechanism as a tool.

Bangladesh Mohila Unnayan Sanghstha
Primary education, Child Rights, Legal Aid, Women's Development, Health, AIDS Prevention, Credit scheme.

Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum
BSAF is a cumulative construct of 107 National NGOs working on child rights.

Barnardo's

Barnardos W.C.D.P - Children's Advocacy Service
To develop a Children's Advocacy Service in a pilot area of Wakefield, United Kingdom, for children and young people in the 'looked after' system either in foster or residential care.

Barnombudsmannwn i Uppsala
The organisation has provided a telephone hotline for children since 1986 and over the years has expanded. For ten years, funded by the municipality BO i Uppsala performed certain services towards local staff and inhabitants.

Behandlungszentrum F. Folteropfer

Belgrade Support To Exploited Children & Youth
Children & Youth in sexual exploitation, Children in migration, exploitation purposes, children who are victims of conflict and crisis, Regional networking and databasing.

Bellanet International Secretariat
Bellanet is an international initiative with a mission to increase the impact of development programming. They foster inter-agency collaboration through more effective use of information and communication technologies.

Benevolent Community Education and Rural Development Society
The main aim of BERDSCO is to improve the living conditions of rural families in Cameroon. This includes improving living conditions of poorest of the poor (women and children in particular); carrying out environmental protection; integrating women in developmental activities; sensitising and educating the public on alcohol and drug abuse and misuse.

Bernard van Leer Foundation
The Foundation seeks to enhance opportunities for children growing up in circumstances of social and economic disadvantage, with the objective of developing their innate potential to the greatest extent possible

Bethleem Daycare Centre

Bethlehem University

Better Life Organisation
It is a child rights organisation helping to improve the general status of children and providing medical and social rehabilitation for disabled persons as well as empowering women socio- economically for development.

Beware of AIDS
BAWA provides HIV/AIDS education, information and counselling for young people. In addition, home based care training is provided.

Beyond Borders - Ensuring Global Justice for Children
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Bharat Vikas Parishad
Works on issues including health, environment, with physically and mentally handicapped persons, vocactional rehabilitation, creating awareness of rights.

Bhutan Women and Children Organisation

Biblioteca (Subon Gial. Programes Sociales)

BIKASH
Bikash is committed to the development of disadvantaged children, women and poor families.

Birmingham Young People's Consultation Project (SCF)
The purpose of the project is to fomalise consultation processes between the city's decision makers and young people aged 11-16. The first year is to access what exists and propose action, the next two years are to act and evaluate.

Bonded Labour Liberation Front

Brazilian Human Rights Centre
The main objective of "Projeto Legal Do IBISS" tries to contribute to a 'healty' society' in which human rights are respected, access to public services is guaranteed to all citizens, social injustice is eliminated and citizens are entitled to free cultural and mental development.

Breakthrough Youth Outreach and Information Project
To provide free, confidential advice to young people including social and health education, financial, educational and recreational advice, advice and advocacy on benefit problems and housing.

Bulgarian Association of Women in Legal Profession
BAWLP was founded on July 1991 and registered as non-profit, voluntary and independent organisation, whose members are women from all types of legal profession - judges (from all levels, including judges from Supreme Court, District courts), prosecutors, lawyers, academics.

Bunyad Literacy Community Council

Butterflies - Programme for Street and Working Children

Butula Multi-Purpose Youth Group

Callan Services for Disabled Persons
Callan Services is involved in the training of personnel to work with the physically disabled, visual and hearing impaired, mentally handicapped and the socially disadvantaged and to work in the area of hygiene and preventative health care with local village communities.

Cambodian Centre for Protection of Children's Rights
The Cambodian Centre for the Protection of Children's Rights aims at five main programmes: Prevention and Rescue Recovery Centre Vocational Training Skills Investigation Reintegration and Follow up

Cambodian League for Defence of Human Rights

Cambridge Female Education Trust
1. To provide support to deprived girls, enabling them to go to school, 2. To make educations accessible to the poor, 3. To support women's groups in relation to income generating activities, 4. To provide training and learning opportunities to early and other school leavers.

Campaign Against Child Labour
Campaign Against Child Labour works to monitor and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child nationally in India.

Campaign Free Tibet

Canadian Children and Armed Conflict Working Group
Promote and expand the use of humanitarian cease-fires to protect children during armed conflict. Improve implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child before, during, and post-conflict. Prevent the use of child soldiers and adopt the optional protocol. Expand the peace-building components of post-conflict reconstruction.

Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children
Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children work to monitor and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child nationally in Canada

Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law
This organization runs a clinic that provides legal representation for low- income children and youth under the age of 18 years in the Metropolitan Toronto area. It also has a policy committee that monitors and responds to existing and proposed legislation involving children's rights.

Canadian Institute of Child Health
CICH is a national multi-disciplinary, non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of the health and well- being of Canadian children through consultation, collaboration, research and advocacy, by building alliances and coalitions and by creating resources of health promotion, disease and injury prevention relevant to child and family health in Canada.

Canadian International Development Agency
CIDA is the government of Canada's agency for promoting International development.

Canongate Youth Project
CYP aims to offer services to all young people in Edinburgh between the ages of 5 - 21 years through the provision of open youth clubs, activity groups, single sex work and work aimed secifically at young people who may be experiencing difficulties over and above those that we might associate with growing up.

CAPCAT Project - International
The CAPCAT Project-International is an umbrella group coordinating the efforts of the individual, national CAPCAT organisations around the world.

CAPCAT Project - Thailand
The CAPCAT Project - Thailand is an umbrella coalition of non-profit / NGO Groups, government agencies and international agencies working to assist at risk children and families in Thailand.

Care for Children in Need

Casa Alianza - Covenant House Latin America
Casa Alianza aims: to provide residential and non-residentail homes for street children between the ages of zero and 18; to prepare them with job and life skills for the future; to be an advocate for street children, trying to change the reality that produces them in the first place; and to provide legal defence for children.

Casa De Los Ninos
Psychotheraputic treatment and rehabilitation for child victims of sexual abuse.

Casa Esperanza Pro-Rescate Del Nino En La Calle

Catholic Action for Street Children

Catholic Institute of Education
Mostly training of teachers in Catholic Schools

Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged outside of the country. Now with nearly 56 years of experience, CRS is operating in 82 countries. CRS operated in Albania in five Prefectures: Tirana, Durres, Elbasan, Fier and Kukes.

Central Department of home Science and Women's Development

Central Union for Child Welfare
The Central Union for Child Welfare provides information training and research in the areas of early childhood education, children with disabilities and chronic illness, child sexual and physical abuse, multicultural issues and the promotion of the Convention.

Centre Africain pour l'Education aux Droits Humain et a la Paix
AIM: To educate the population about human rights. ACTIVITIES: Public demonstrations, young people's clubs, creation and distribution of educational packs and materials.

Centre d'Action Communautaire pour l'Enfance
The Centre for Community Action and Infancy works to protect and promote awareness of issues surrounding infancy. It works with infants and pre-school children and assesses growth and nutritional status and provides vaccinations. C.A.C.E. makes interventions at family and community levels regarding community life, family planning, education of women.

Centre d'Appui et d'Autopromotion des Initiaves Locales de Developpemen
CAPILD aims to protect children's rights, promote women and protect the environment for future generations. Primary areas of work are in children's rights activities, income generating projects to support their programme for street youth; research on children's rights, welfare and protection; providing documentation, information and advice; campaign against poverty.

Centre d'Educationde Development pour les Enfants Mauriciens
Child Welfare Child Rights School for Handicapped

Centre for Alternative Development and Media Action
To promote and protect the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child To eradicate child labour and child abuse in all forms To bring out publications on child rights issues To promote mother and child health and nutrition To promote National Integration among children To advocate and lobby for child rights.

Centre for Child and the Law
The Centre is designed to develop, organise, monitor and coordinate activities pertaining to children with the aim of bringing justice to the child ie Research, training, documentation, consultancy, advocacy, curriculum development and networking.

Centre for Child Protection and Rescue

Centre for Childcare and Protection Studies
Teaching and research in child care and protection studies. Students include social workers, health professionals, police officers, education and legal professionals. The programme includes degree level and post-graduate level (including PhD) courses.

Centre for Children and Youth - JDC - Brookdale Institute
The objective of the Centre is to promote the well being of Jewish and Arab children and youth through a program of research, dissemination of information and knowledge, consultation to policymakers and program developers in the field, and leadership development, with a special commitment to the disadvantaged.

Centre for Children's Rights
- To provide training and education on children's rights. - To make the principles and provisions of the CRC and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. - To promote and protect against the abuses of the rights of the child.

Centre for Community Health Research
A non-governmental, non-profit making research organisation undertaking programmes in the morbidity of children, education and training, awareness programmes on child rights, abolition of child labour and protection of the environment in India

Centre for Development Communication

Centre for Development Initiatives
Centre for Development Studies - University of Wales, Swansea
Education/training, consultancy and research in a wide range of development issues: health, population, participation, community development, social welfare, justice, crime, human rights, gender, children, environment, informal sector, youth employment.

Centre for Early Childhood Development

Centre for Europe's Children
Electronic documentation and information centre on children's rights and childhood policies in Europe. Promoting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child through providing information, promoting and enabling research, building networks.

Centre for Human Development And Learning

Centre for Human RIghts Guidance
- To promote and to protect the human rights - To maintain the international standard on human rights - To support relief, rehabiliation and reconstruction

Centre for Information and Documentation on Children's Rights from Moldova
The centre promotes knowledge among children about the Convention on Children Rights and other national, international acts concerning children rights and human rights. The centre is involved as animators in implementation of the Children's Parliament project, which is co-ordinated by EYE-Moldova and supported by UNICEF Moldova, USIS and SOROS Moldova.

Centre for Information on Migration in Latin America
CIMAL is a specialised information center for international migration and related issues (refugees, asylum, resettlement, migration law, trafficking in migrants, adoption, etc.) and is part of the International Organisation for Migration. CIMAL provides information services to anyone who needs it and all types of literature is included in our collection.

Centre for International Child Health
Working to promote better health, nutrition and welfare for children and families in less developed countries

Centre for Legal Research & Resource Development

Centre for Organisation Research and Education

Centre for Reproductive and Family Health
RaFH is a local NGO acting with the aim of improving reproductive and family health.

Centre for Rural Child Development
The aims and objectives of the organisation is to promote the socio- economic status for the distressed people emphasizing children survival protection and development. To provide advocacy and social mobilisation and building awareness on the children's problem, basis need and child right, ono formal primary education for children.

Centre for Rural Education and Development
CRED is a non-government, grass roots organisation working for rural development.

Centre for Rural Education Research and Development Association
Activities: - Organising women's forums - Income generation programmes - Savings and credit programmes - Alternative education to the underprivileged boys and girls - Child labour system elimination project - Non-formal education project to the school drop-outs - Environment education project

Centre for International Child Health
Working to promote better health, nutrition and welfare for children and families in less developed countries

Centre for Social Policy Initiatives
Assistance to population in social risk - poor families, multi-problem families, children with special needs and the most vulnerable refugee and displaced population - the unaccompanied children, ensuring their best interest; their rights to a family, name and ethnicity, supporting and promoting the foster care model as an alternative to the institutional model.

Centre for Social Research
CSR's vision is to work towards a gender just society through empowerment of women so that a humanistic government is ensured which will protect the rights of poor women and children. CSR focuses on developing research based action programmes towards achieving the goal of empowerment of women and a gender just society.

Centre for Study and Child Protection

Centre for the Empowerment of the Vulnerable

Centre for the Protection and Development of the Child and His Rights
The Center for the Protection and Development of the Child and his Rights (PDCR) continues its sustained and persistent efforts to promptly contribute to solving the issue of street children and marginal work children. In these efforts, PDCR resorts to full coordination and cooperation with civil associations and government agencies.

Centre for the Protection of Children's Rights Foundation
The CRCR provides protection , temporary shelter , child welfare and rehabilitation up to 18 years old whose basic human rights have been violated. Our primary concern is with children who have been sexually or physically abused, abandoned or lured or sold into prostitution or used for unjust labour.

Centre for the Study of Human Rights, University of Colombo
The CSHR is a service oriented institution with the twin mandates of education and research in human rights and related subjects. The target groups for its education projects are: Law Faculty students and all university students and faculty; school children; and the community particularly at the grassroots level.

Centre for the Study of the Child and Society
Multidisciplinary research, teaching, training and consultancy. Research focusing on children's rights, child welfare and protection, children and crime, children's well-being.

Centre for Youth and Children's Affairs
CEYCA seeks to monitor the implementation of the CRC , promote and protect child rights in Malawi. CEYCA conducts research studies on children, ensures that the govenment of Malawi is adhering to international standards of the CRC provisions, and is creating an information collection on children in Malawi throught its various programmes.

Centre of Community Action for Infancy

Centre of Concern for Child Labour
Working on child labour issues in preparation for the World Conference on Racism.

Centre pour la Promotion des Droits de l'Enfant et de la Femme
Translating the Convention of the Rights of the Child into local languages Overseeing the application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Rights of Women.

Centro de Articulacao de Populacoes Marginalizadas
Promotion of children's rights, community development.

Centro de Articulacao Retome Sua Vida
Promoting and defending children's and adolescent's rights, education, adolescents in conflict with the law.

Centro de Desarrollo Juvenil Y de Familia
The basic purpose of CDJF is 1) to put on several activities that are programmed to prevent social pathologies and to change the living conditions of children who exist in marginal conditions. 2) To directly benefit their childhood, CDJF is making an effort to generate psycho- social changes to individuals, families and the community.

Centro de Documentacion en Derechos Humanos Segundo Montes Mozo SJ

Centro De Documentacion Sobre La Infancia, Comexani

Centro de Estudios de Poblacion
Infant and child mortality, reproductive health, adolescent fertility, education and work, migration and urbanisation, poverty, family transformations.

Centro de Estudios e Investigacion sobrela Infancia

Centro de Estudios Sociales y Publicaciones
CESIP works in advocacy of gender equity, children's rights, empowerment and development of capacities of women and children Programs include women's leaderships, reproductive health, child labour, child abuse, development of entrepreneurioal skills children's rights.

Centro Ecumenico de Integracion Pastoral
The organisation goal is to provide the human development of child and adolecent workers in the most decent and fair living conditions.

Centro Internacional de Educacion y Desarrolla Humano

Centro Italiano Aiuti All'Infancia
Helping children in difficult circumstances (orphans, child workers and victims of sexual abuse) and women in disadvantaged conditions, and helping with international adoption).

Centros Comunitarios de Aprendizaje
CECODAP (Community Centres of Learning) is a non-profit making, civil association, which embraces and educational and social perspective.

Centrul de Resurse si Informare Pentru Pregatirea in Profesiuni Sociale
CRIPS Is an information and documentation service originally set up as a pilot project of the Romanian based Child Protection Program CNPE-EU/Phare.

CEPAHM Educational Home

Chaine de Solidarite 'Faggaru Dimbeli Xaleyi'
Protection and development of children.

Chakali Welfare and Development Alliance

Chetna Centre for Health Education and Nutrition Awareness
Working as a resource centre organise capacity building, training on women, adolesents and childrens health & development.

Child Abuse Treatment and Training Services

Child Accident Prevention Trust
CAPT aims to reduce the number and severity of unintentional injuries to children and young people through research into causes and effective prevention, information, education, training and public awareness. Main areas of work Primary education, general publicity and healthcare promotion.

Child Accident Prevention Trust - Northern Ireland

Child Advocacy International
The overall aim of the charity can be summarised as follows: 'sustainable development by working together with health professionals and others responsible for children, including their families, in the best ways of caring for them when they are ill and in promoting their health during difficult circumstances'".

Child and Society
Research and training concerning the position of children in society. our approach is to start from children's own experience when developing various research and training programmes. results are communicated to society as much as possible.

Child and Women Development Centre
C2C, parental education, child entertainment and reading centre, income generation activities, health education related activities etc

Child Association of Nigeria
Aims To promote the protection of children in need of care Main activities Advocacy and support for children at risk and to encourage positive behaviour.

Child Care - Northern Ireland
Child Care (NI) aims to: - promote in Northern Ireland the preservation and protection of health and personal development of children without distinction of sex, race or political, religious or other opinions. - advance public education in child care by associating the appropriate voluntary agencies with the object of improving the conditions of life for children.

Child Centered Millennium Project
The CCMP is an internet based, public education effort that promotes the placing of children's rights before all other human, civil, and legal rights. It is currently promoting the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the United States government and Soliciting co- sponsors to the UN resolution for an International Orphan's Day for PRIDE Inc. an NGO

Child Find - Canada
Child Find Canada is a partnership with its independent provincial members.

Child Focus
To actively support the investigation of children reported missing or abducted and to prevent the disappearance and sexual exploitation of children.

Child Guidance Clinic Community Psychology Programme

Child In Need Institute

Child Labour Action Network
To promote human rights for vulnerable children in the light of CRC, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the national constitution. To ensure that all children have equal opportunities in education, healthcare and development and that girl child workers problems are given priority during the special session on children and preparatory process.

Child Mirror Liberia Incorporated
A child rights and welfare advocacy organisation that works to ensure the best possible start in life for Liberian children.

Child Poverty Action Group
CPAG campaigns to alleviate poverty amongst children in the United Kingdom

Child Project International
To promote awareness and advocacy about children's rights with particular attention to the girl child. Facilitate children's rights to voice and self expression. Strengthn programming capacity of children's rights in Cameroon. Provided essential services for street children in urban areas. Counselling the vulnerable children who are victims.

Child Relief and You
To create awareness of the situation of underprivileged children in India and harness public commitment and support. To channel this support towards providing comprehensive support to development initiatives with socially, economically, politically and physically deprived women and children within their communities.

Child Restoration Outreach

Child Rights Asianet
Child Rights ASIANET aims to promote and protect rights of children in Asia and the Pacific.

Child Rights Associations Collective
1. Working on changing legislation relating to children's rights. 2. Training on CRC 3. Spreading awareness of CRC 4. Promoting the UNCRC

Child Rights Centre - Commission on Human Rights, Philippines

Child Rights Education - International
Child Rights Education - International is an international distance learning project. It is meant to make the highest levels of knowledge, expertise and critical thinking available to interested persons, organisations and insitutions thoughout the world to help them understand and promote the human rights of the child.

Child Rights Group
Child Rights Group works to monitor and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child nationally in Sri Lanka.

Child Rights Information Network

Child Rights Organisation

Child Rights Watch Nepal
Child Rights Watch Nepal works to monitor and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child nationally in Nepal.

Child Violence Identification and Prevention
To develop sustainable, culturally- sensitive definitions of all preventable harm to children. Such consensual definitions will provide: support to implement Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and a framework for more consistent and co-ordinated research on the prevention of preventable trauma to children.

Child Watch
The aims and objectives of Childwatch are to advocate and promote the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in particular in the field eradicating all forms of exploitation of children. The organisation also publishes and distributes literature on the Rights of the Child.

Child Welfare League of America

Child Welfare League of Canada and Canadian Resource Centre on Children and Youth
The Child Welfare League of Canada is dedicated to protecting and promoting the well being of Canada's children, particularly those who are at risk because of poverty abuse and neglect.

Child Welfare League of Nigeria

Child Welfare League of Nigeria - UK Chapter

Child Welfare Society of Kenya

Child Workers in Asia
CWA focuses on working children and is involved in network support and development with NGO partners. It organises workshops and seminars, develops publicity materials, undertakes studies on child workers, supports fundraising activities of partners, supports international initiatives such as the Global March Against Child Labour, disseminating information on child labour.

Child Workers in Nepal

Childhood and Society
Research and training concerning the position of children in society. our approach is to start from children's own experience when developing various research and training programmes. results are communicated to society as much as possible.

Childhood and Youth Division, Health Canada
The Strategic Policy and Systems Coordination Section of the Childhood and Youth Division supports research and analysis of trends regarding children and youth (0 to 18 years) in Canada and internationally.

Childhood Research and Policy Centre

Childhope - Africa
C.H.A. is a national, non- governmental, non-profit christian organisation. The major aim of CHA is to address the issues facing disadvantaged children in urban and street situations.

Childhope - Asia Phillipines
A) To establish contacts and facilitate networking and linkage-building among various entities involved in and working with street children in the Asia-Pacific Region and B) to facilitate advocacy, social mobilisation, research, technical assistance and programme support activities at the national, regional and international level.

Childhope International
Childhope carries out a variety of activities to accomplish its goal of worldwide advocacy and service development for street children.

Childhope UK
ChildHope is a British charity dedicated to improving the lives and defending the rights of street children worldwide. Childhope works in partnership with local groups by providing resources training, information and support. They aim to increase the capacity of each group in responding directly to the needs of street children from their communties.

Childline
Childline is the free 24-hour telephone helpline for children and young people in trouble or danger. It provides a confidential counselling service. It produces leaflets and reports on a variety of issues.

Childnet International
Child net international promotes the best interests of children in international communications. It has four main fields of activity.

Children 1st Royal Scottish Society For Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Child care, child protection, child welfare, children's rights.

Children and AIDS International NGO Network
ICAD is a Canadian-based coalition of 29 NGOs and AIDS-service organisations. In 1996, representatives of 60 agencies from all regions of the world agreed to undertake immediate action to ensure that the needs and voices of children and youth affected by HIV and AIDS are no longer neglected.

Children and Violence Caucus for the 2001 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children
To ensure that those children subjected to violence, abuse and exploitation are not forgotten during the Special Session deliberations.

Children and Young People's Rights and Participation Project

Children and Youth Foundation Philippines

Children at Risk
1. Children in Domestic Work: - Contact and Organising - Lobbying and Advocacy - Awareness - Crisis Intervention and Counselling 2. "Children at Risk" - Rescue - Counselling - Medical and Legal Aid - Reintegration - Networking

Children at Risk - Bombay
Children at Risk works against domestic child labour and is involved in crisi intervention, educaiton, cousnelling and legal and medical support. CAR seeks to reintegrate chidlren with their immediate family or a member of their family. CAR focuses on therehabilitation of the child as well as its resilience.

Children at Risk Network Group - Nepal Office
The Children At Risk Network Group is an alliance of 29 NGO's working for the rights and development of children who are in difficult circumstances. These children are mostly street children, child labourers, girl children involved in prostitution, and trafficking and children of imprisoned parents.

Children Concern Organisation
The concern and welfare of children in Uganda. Education is a particular priority with the organisation providing school fees for needy children.

Children Cooperation Council
Promoting the education of females.,

Children First
Children First regards the physical and emotional well-being of all children, their welfare and their free developement as the most paramount priority under all circumstances.· We see children's rights as universal.

Children First (South Africa)
Children First exists to promote and protect the rights and well-being of children. This includes providing: * A forum to develop models of good practice for working with children, * Opportunities for children to express their views and concerns, * A tool for lobbying policy-makers and opinion formers.

Children in Asia
Child Asia is dedicated to the aim of raising international awarness of the issues concerning children in Asia; promoting the convention on the rights of the child , fostering cooperation among organisations, governments, institutions and individuals to improve the lives of children and facilitating a regional network in Asia.

Children in Need Network

Children in Scotland
Children in Scotland is the national agency for voluntary , statutory and professional organisations and individuals working with children and their famlies in Scotland.

Children in Wales
Children in Wales works for children young peoples, and their families in Wales.

Children Internationally Abducted N.Y.C
CIANYC aims to assist parents and families of missing or abducted children by providing information , referrals and free consultation to support their search for their children.

Children Of the Storm
Support for young (under 21) refugee and asylum seekers in the UK.

Children of the World
to help street children return to their homes and provide professional training Primary areas of work: primary education, juvenile justice, health, vocational guidance.

Children on the Edge
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Children on the Edge - Romania
Children on the edge Romania assists institutionalised children and graduates from orphanages.

Children's Aid Direct
FTC is an international child centred, humanitarian relief organisation, delivering aid through our own in- country teams directly to the beneficiaries: children and their carers.

Children's Embassy In Bosnia And Herzegovina

Children's Forum 21

Children's Foundation (Ghana)

Children's Fund of the Slovak Republic

Children's Home for Interim Care
To protect children's rights and freedom fixed by the convention of child rights. And to stop youth criminals in Vilnius and Vilnius County.

Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania
CRCA ia a non-governmental organisation, which works for: Protection, development of children's rights and increasing child participation in Albania.

Children's Interest Bureau - Office for Familes and Children
Policy advice on all government initiatives affecting children , raising community awareness about children's issues, assisting young people'