Links Collection
General Links

UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
www.unicef.org/

UNICEF Voices of Youth
www.unicef.org/voy/meeting/war/warhome.html

UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees)
www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home

UN special session on children, New-York, 8-10 May 2002
http://www.un.org/ga/children/

UNHCR - Focus on Children
http://www.unhcr.ch/children/index.html

OHCHR (United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
www.unhchr.ch/

UNESCO UN Educational Scientific ∓mp; Cultural Organization) (Towards a Culture of Peace)
www.unesco.org/cpp/

UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
www.undp.org/

United Nations Watch
www.unwatch.org/

Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Resource Centre (UN System)
www.undp.org/erd/ddr/

Olara Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
www.un.org/special-rep/children-armed-conflict/fsoldiers.html

A report on the State of the World's Children, 1996 (focuses on children and war)
www.unicef.org/sowc96/

"Impact of Armed Conflict on Children"- Ms. Graça Machel’s report to the UN General Assembly at its 51st session.
www.unicef.org/graca/

Nov-Govermental Organization Links

Alliances for Africa
www.alliancesforafrica.org/index.asp

 Amnesty International - Canada: Children and War
www.amnesty.ca/child/introwar.htm

 The Child Is Innocent
www.thechildisinnocent.ca

ARC - Action for the Rights of Children (UNHCR ∓mp; Save the Children Alliance)
http://www.savethechildren.org/crisis/war.shtml

BOES
www.boes.org/index.shtml

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
www.child-soldiers.org

 The European Forum for Child Welfare (EFCW)
www.efcw.org/

 Geopolitics Children, Conflict and the Military
www.globalissues.com/Geopolitics/Children.asp

 Ginie Children and War
www.pitt.edu/~ginie/disability/child_wars.html

 Global Children's Organization
www.globalchild.org/

 The International Campaign to Ban Landmines
www.icbl.org/

 International Children's Centre
www.child-abuse.com/childhouse/childwatch/key/cie/

 International Coalition to Stop the use of Child Soldiers
www.child-soldiers.org/

 International Save the Children Alliance
www.savechildren.or.jp/alliance

 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)- Children in War
www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/children

 International Save the Children Alliance
www.savethechildren.net/homepage/

 Medicins sans Frontieres - More than Bandages Project
http://web.uvic.ca/iicrd/proj_war-affected.html

 OneWorld - Children and war page
www.oneworld.org/child_rights/ch_war.html

 Peace Pledge Union Children and war
www.ppu.org.uk/chidren/

 Quaker United Nations Office
http://hostings.diplomacy.edu/quaker/

 Save the Children Fund - UK
http://193.129.255.93/

 Save the Children - USA
www.savethechildren.org/fact_child-war.html

 Soldierchild International
www.soldierchild.org

 SOS Kinderdorf International
www.sos-childrensvillages.org

 US Campaign to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
www.us-childsoldiers.org

 War Affected Children (Government of Canada)
www.waraffectedchildren.gc.ca/

War Child
www.warchild.org/

 The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
www.womenscommission.org/

 Youth Advocate Program International
www.yapi.org/
Academic Links

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/afchild.htm

Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/REFUGEE2.htm

 Alternative NGO Reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRIN, NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child)
www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/CRC.25/Annex-VI-CRIN.htm

BBC resources on Children and War
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconflict/

Center for Defence Information (CDI)- child soldiers
www.cdi.org/atp/ChildSoldiers/index.html

Convention on the Rights of the Child Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by the General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm

Declaration on the Promotion among Youth of the Ideals of Peace, Mutual Respect and Understanding between Peoples
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/65.htm

Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/24.htm

Human Rights Watch Facts about the use of children in armed conflicts around the world.
www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/facts.htm

Human Rights Watch 2000 Accord
www.hrw.org/press/2000/01/child0121.htm

International Bureau for Children's Rights
www.ibcr.org/index_en.shtml

International Court of Justice
www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icj002.htm

Convention on the Rights of the Child (including signatories and ratifications)
International Labour Organization Convention 182 concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour (1999)(in force 19 November 2000)
www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/ratification/convention/text.htm

Map of the world identifying where child soldiers have been used.
www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/crp-map.htm

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict Full Text (25 May 2000)
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/6/protocolchild.htm

Provisions of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols 1 and 2 relevant to children
www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/international/legal/ihlchild/text/ihlchild001.htm

 Report from the International Coalition to Stop the use of Child Soldiers, released June 2001
www.child-soldiers.org/cs/childsoldiers.nsf

 State Reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)
www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf

 Terre des hommes
http://www.tdh.ch/index_e.php

 The Use of Children as Soldiers- a Report by Foreign Policy In Focus looking at the US role and policies
www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol4/v4n27child.html

 UN Human Rights Fact Sheet (No.10) on The Rights of the Child (United Nations Centre for Human Rights at Geneva)
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs10.htm

 World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children
www.unicef.org/wsc/declare.htm

 
 
   
 
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