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- The children of Guantanamo Bay
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The notorious US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay has been hit by fresh allegations of human rights abuses, with claims that dozens of children were sent there - some as young as 14 years old. One child prisoner, Mohamed el Gharani, is accused of involvement in a 1998 al-Qa'ida plot in London led by the alleged al-Qa'ida leader in Europe, Abu Qatada. But he was 12 years old at the time and living with his parents in Saudi Arabia. The disclosures threaten to plunge the Bush administration into a fresh row with Britain, its closest ally in the war on terror, only days after the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, repeated his demands for the closure of the detention facility. It was, he said, a "symbol of injustice". (Severin Carrell, The Independent, 28 May 2006)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article620704.ece
(Added: Mon May 29 2006 Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007 Hits: 195)
- Advocating for the Rights of Children Worldwide Trust (ARC Worldwide Trust)
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The primary purpose of the A.R.C. Worldwide Trust is to assist children to reach their full potential, by advocating for their fundamental rights, and implementing programs that provide opportunities for such rights to be met. To achieve this purpose, the broad aims of the A.R.C. Worldwide Trust are: - To raise awareness about the plight of children worldwide, with a specific focus on those children identified as most in need - To provide opportunities to those children identified as most in need, due to their personal circumstances - By achieving the aforementioned aims, assist to alleviate some of the adverse social, economic and personal factors that have the potential to impede children reaching their full potential
(Added: Wed Jun 27 2007 Modified: Fri Jun 29 2007 Hits: 135)
- After the Cameras Have Gone: Children and Disasters [PDF]
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Plan International. Edited by Amer Jabry, Second edition: January 2005. Children are the most photographed and least listened to victims of disasters. As the tsunami relief effort moves from rescue to rebuilding and the global community is reflecting on what should happen 'after the cameras have gone', we are re-printing this report on the long-term effect of disasters on children. The report demonstrates that the protection of children and their right to participate in decisions made about their future will be overlooked if patterns of previous disasters are followed. This research shows that during a disaster the physical survival needs of children including, safe water, food, shelter, clothing and primary health care are usually given a very high priority. However, other needs and rights, which are also essential for children, like protection from abuse and harm, education, rest, privacy and the right to participate in matters that affect them are too often overlooked. Yet, as child traffickers try to profit from the tumult and whole communities are traumatised and in shock, children are at risk. The protection and psychological, as well as physical, recovery of children should be a leading feature of every stage of any disaster response.
http://www.plan-uk.org/pdfs/Children.pdf
(Added: Mon Nov 14 2005 Modified: Fri Jul 14 2006 Hits: 377)
- Bill to jail children would put NZ in breach of international law
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A bill to lower the age for criminal prosecutions against children would breach international and New Zealand human rights law (Human Rights Commission, 2 May 2007).
(Added: Tue Jun 05 2007 Hits: 120)
- Broken dreams : child migration in Southern Africa [pdf]
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The stories of children who travel alone in Southern Africa tell of beatings at the hands of the authorities, of their possessions being taken, of forced labour, and their vulnerability to sexual abuse. This report by Save the Children (STC) also tells of their bravery and resilience, and they even offer advice to other young migrants. (Save the Children, 2008)
http://www.crin.org/docs/Save_the_children_sa_migration.pdf
(Added: Mon May 05 2008 Hits: 11)
- Building Human Rights Communities in Education
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Building Human Rights Communities in Education is an initiative developed by Amnesty International, the Development Resource Centre, the Human Rights Commission, the Children's Commissioner, and the Peace Foundation. The Initiative has been developed to play a lead role in helping us as a country to meet our educational human rights aspirations and obligations. Its vision is that schools and early childhood centres will become communities where human rights are known, promoted and lived.
(Added: Tue Dec 04 2007 Hits: 82)
- Casa Alianza
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Casa Alianza is an independent, non profit organisation dedicated to the rehabilitation and defense of street children in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua. Founded in Guatemala in 1981, and expanded into Honduras and Mexico in 1986, and into Nicaragua in 1998, Casa Alianza monitors and cares some 8,961 street children a year, most of whom have been orphaned by civil war, abused or rejected by dysfunctional and poverty-stricken families, and further traumatized by the indifference of the societies in which they live. Ubiquitous and growing in numbers, many far too young to comprehend their fate, they beg, steal, and sell themselves for a hot meal, a hot shower, a clean bed. Living on the edge of survival, they are often swept in an undertow of beatings, illegal detentions, torture, sexual abuse, rape, and murder. Casa Alianza is dedicated to helping these children off the streets and back on the road to meaningful and productive lives.
http://www.casa-alianza.org/EN/news.php
(Added: Fri Jun 20 2003 Modified: Tue Sep 12 2006 Hits: 302)
- Child abuse in cyberspace: a growing problem
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Children around the globe are using new information and communications technologies - from the Internet to mobile phones, webcams, instant messaging, chat rooms and so on. Although these technologies are entertaining and educational, they can also widen opportunities for child abuse. A framework to protect children in 'cyberspace' is needed. (ECPAT).
http://www.ecpat.net/eng/publications/Cyberspace/PDF/ECPAT_Cyberspace_2005-ENG.pdf
(Added: Tue Jul 10 2007 Hits: 97)
- Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
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The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) is a global network that disseminates information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights amongst non-governmental organisations (NGOs), United Nations agencies, inter-governmental organisation (IGOs), educational institutions, and other child rights experts. The Coordinating Unit is based in London, UK. The network is supported, and receives funding from, UNICEF, Rädda Barnen, Save the Children UK and the International Save the Children Alliance. CRIN has a membership of more than 1,100 organisations in over 100 countries. About 84 percent of our members are NGOs; and 55 percent are in the South (including 22 percent in Africa and 18 percent in Asia). In addition to working with member organisations, CRIN services the information needs of about 1,600 organisations and 60 individuals who have joined our mailing list.
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- Child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation of children in the Pacific: A regional report
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This regional report is a synthesis of the findings of each country study - Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - which were conducted between October 2004 and June 2005.2 The purpose of this synthesis report is not to single out any one group for ridicule but rather to break the long-running silence surrounding the incidence, extent and nature of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation against children in the Pacific region and to prompt open, constructive community debate and new policies that aim to end the suffering of victims. (UNICEF, UNESCAP and ECPAT International, December 2006)
http://www.unicef.org/eapro/Pacific_CSEC_report.pdf
(Added: Wed Jan 10 2007 Hits: 349)
- Child Sponsorship: a funding tool for sustainable development?
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This article has looked at the nature of child sponsorship programmes and has set out the main arguments for and against sponsorship as a funding source for development. These arguments focus on the effects of sponsorship programmes on the recipient community, on the level of understanding and motivations of the donors, and on the costs involved in running such programmes. Sponsoring agencies have addressed internally the issues raised by public debate. However, whilst sponsorship is a growing phenomenon capable of raising large amounts of relatively stable longer-term funding, little empirical research-based evidence is available concerning its impact. (INTRAC, 2000)
http://www.intrac.org/docs.php?id=427
(Added: Wed Jan 31 2007 Hits: 160)
- Child Trafficking - The People Involved: A synthesis of findings from Albania, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine [PDF]
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By June Kane for the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) of the International Labour Office (ILO), January 2005.The present report was originally intended as a synthesis of the results of the surveys in Albania, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine. It became clear, however, that the results offered an opportunity to present and analyse child trafficking in these countries from a different angle. The report consequently focuses on the people involved in trafficking: the children, their parents and families, close acquaintances including friends and neighbours, traffickers, exploiters, and the many people who - no matter how small their contribution - aid and abet trafficking. These include the recruiters, transporters, logistical personnel, providers of forged or illicitly obtained documentation, information providers, accommodation providers, bodyguards and guides who all play a part in making trafficking happen. They also include the 'lazy' border guards, corrupt law enforcement personnel and 'unknowing' consular or visa office staff who do not ask the right questions or who do not respond appropriately when they know the answers given are untrue.
http://www.ilo.org/iloroot/docstore/ipec/prod/eng/2005_traf_involved_en.pdf
(Added: Mon Sep 26 2005 Modified: Mon Nov 14 2005 Hits: 233)
- Children on the Brink 2002 (pdf)
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(UNAIDS) USAID, UNICEF and UNAIDS. One of the most telling and troubling consequences of the epidemic's growing reach is the number of children it has orphaned or seriously impacted. Today more than 13 million children currently under age 15 have lost one or both parents to AIDS, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. "Children on the Brink 2002" contains statistics on children orphaned by HIV/AIDS from 88 countries, analysis of the trends found in those statistics, and strategies and principles for helping the children.
http://www.unaids.org/EN/resources/epidemiology/epi_recent_publications/childrenonthebrink.asp
(Added: Mon Mar 29 2004 Modified: Mon Aug 14 2006 Hits: 235)
- Children's Rights Indepth Report
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Since its adoption in 1989, the Convention on the Rights of the Child stated the principle of 'all children, all rights'. Today, that is still much too far from being a reality (Chioke, 2008).
http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/6322.html
(Added: Fri Apr 04 2008 Hits: 53)
- Conducting a Situation Analysis of Orphans & Vulnerable Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (pdf)
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John Williamson, Adrienne Cox, Beverly Johnston, USAID, Feb 2004. Worldwide, the number of children under age 15 who have lost one or both parents to AIDS stands at more than 14 million, and estimates predict this number will surpass 25 million by 2010. This framework and resource guide is intended to help people involved in programs assisting orphans and vulnerable children conduct a situation analysis. It is hoped that this guide will bring about a better understanding of the essential elements and outcomes of a situation analysis in order to promote realistic, effective, and feasible interventions to protect and improve the well-being of the children and families who bear the greatest impact of the AIDS epidemic. The guide serves as a tool for collecting and synthesizing in-country and sub-national information.
http://www.dec.org/pdf_docs/PNACX649.pdf
(Added: Thu Jun 03 2004 Modified: Mon Aug 28 2006 Hits: 395)
- Creating Participatory Radio Drama with Children
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Originally published as a chapter in a Portuguese language manual produced for the National Children's Radio Seminar in Mozambique, this English-language guide for facilitators aims to help create radio dramas with children.
http://www.cmfd.org/cmfdpubs/CMFDChildrenGuidetoParticipatoryRadioforFacilitators.pdf
(Added: Thu Jan 10 2008 Hits: 56)
- Crossing Borders
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Crossing Borders is a non-governmental and not for profit organisation based at the International People's College in Elsinore, Denmark with branches in Palestine, Israel and Jordan. It applies the concept of cross-border dialogue with a focus on mutual learning and non-violent communication to Arab and Israeli youth in the Middle East, through various programmes, including a magazine written by and for aforementioned youth.
(Added: Mon Mar 19 2007 Hits: 191)
- Denied Status, Denied Education: Children of North Korean Women in China
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This 23-page report documents how such children live without legal identity or access to elementary education. These children live in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in eastern Jilin Province, northeast China (near its border with North Korea). Some are from North Korea while others were born in China and have Chinese fathers and North Korean mothers (Human Rights Watch, 12 April 2008).
http://hrw.org/reports/2008/northkorea0408/
(Added: Tue Apr 15 2008 Modified: Fri Apr 18 2008 Hits: 33)
- ECPAT International Information and Resource Centre
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One important aspect of ECPAT's work is the dissemination of information on the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). In addition to responding to the information needs of the ECPAT National and Affiliate Groups, the staff at the information and resource centre answer over twenty inquiries a week from journalists, governments, non governmental organizations, students and members of the general public. The ECPAT International Resource Centre has a collection of well over 1000 documents, videos and CD ROMs related to CSEC, including national and international legislation relevant to protecting children from sexual exploitation. The collection is professionally organized, catalogued and classified and is fully automated and searchable. Also available: Online Database which contains information on the situation of child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes, as well as the actions undertaken to combat them and the organizations who are active in this issue; News Clippings; and Publications/Newsletter.
http://www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/IRC/index.asp
(Added: Wed Dec 17 2003 Modified: Mon Aug 28 2006 Hits: 394)
- Innocenti Research Centre
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The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre is based in Florence and is the main research arm of UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, helping to shape the organization's human rights agenda for children. Since its creation in 1988, the Centre has provided solid data on the changing needs of children in both developing and industrialized countries. Its strong focus on children's rights has helped UNICEF and its partners promote a new global ethic for children based on their fundamental human rights. One of the Centre's main aims is to encourage the effective implementation of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in every country - rich or poor. The Centre gives particular priority to problems of equity, economic affordability and the financing of social programmes to benefit children. The Centre is staffed by a small team of around thirty people, and is located in Brunelleschi's historical building, the Istituto degli Innocenti.
(Added: Tue Jul 29 2003 Modified: Mon Aug 28 2006 Hits: 300)
- Innocenti Social Monitor 2004
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UNICEF, 13 October 2004. The Innocenti Social Monitor highlights the gaps between rich and poor within the 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States , as well as between the more prosperous countries of Central Europe and the poorer countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia. It examines how unemployment affects children: in some countries, including Bulgaria and Poland, large numbers of children are growing up in families where neither parent is employed.
http://www.unicef-icdc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/presscentre/presskit_down.sql?IDEvent=39
(Added: Fri Oct 15 2004 Modified: Mon Aug 22 2005 Hits: 218)
- International criminal accountability and children's rights
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This brief examines how a child rights approach has been gradually inserted into the practice of international tribunals. Child victims should be entitled to no less justice than adults. However, to testify on war crimes and be questioned in courtrooms may add to-not relieve-children's trauma. Children can both suffer from and commit atrocity crimes. The book discusses the dilemma of child soldiers, who could be perpetrators of war crimes but are also victims of forceful recruitment, which is in itself a war crime. It demonstrates the growing child-protection culture at the UN and the cooperation among its agencies in combating the recruitment of child soldiers. (United Nations University, 2006)
http://www.choike.org/documentos/children_rights.pdf
(Added: Wed Nov 29 2006 Hits: 130)
- Keeping Children Safe - a toolkit for child protection.
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Plan has collaborated with the NSPCC and a coalition of international agencies including Save the Children, Oxfam, World Vision, Tearfund, Everychild, Terre des Hommes and People in Aid to launch this toolkit, which helps international agencies reach global standards in child protection, using the NSPCC's child protection training knowledge. The toolkit helps international agencies reach global standards in child protection, using the NSPCC's child protection training knowledge. The aim is to help staff recognise and respond appropriately to signs of child abuse.
http://www.keepingchildrensafe.org.uk/
(Added: Mon Apr 03 2006 Hits: 315)
- Kid-Friendly Countries
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A quality-of-life survey of children around the world. A good indicator of a country's quality-of-life is the way it treats its most vulnerable members. Kids are a good measure of how well government policies percolate to the most sensitive and defenseless segment of society. Children are more vulnerable than adults to hazards of any form due to their size, physiology and behavior. Children under age five breathe more air, drink more water and eat more food per unit of body weight than adults, so they experience a greater risk from pathogens and pollutants. The well-being of a child is also a good indicator of the well-being of the parents.
http://www.populationconnection.org/kidfriendlycountries/index.htm
(Added: Tue Sep 02 2003 Modified: Mon Aug 22 2005 Hits: 273)
- Kids With Cameras
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Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world. We use photography to capture the imaginations of children, to empower them, building confidence, self-esteem and hope. We share their vision and voices with the world through exhibitions, books, websites and film. We are committed to furthering their general education beyond photography either by linking with local organizations to provide scholarships or by developing our own schools with a focus on leadership and the arts.
(Added: Tue Apr 26 2005 Hits: 254)
