Resources for human rights professionals
Resources for human rights professionals |
| Child Rights Information Network - http://www.crin.org/ Top resource center on chidren's rights. The iformation, mainly UN and BGO reports, is organised by region and by theme: armed conflict, child labour, sexual exploitation, education, etc. - [Read more] |
| Childrens rights - http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/auok.htm Section of the Minnesota human rights library on children's rights. - [Read more] |
| UNICEF: Resources for development professionals - http://www.unicef.org/siteguide/resources_development.html#technical A number of resources, such as technical manuals, good practices, and statistical data. - [Read more] |
| Defence for Children International - http://www.dci-is.org/Static/dc.php?menu=6 DCI's Documentation Centre is unique and serves as a central collecting point of information published worldwide on children's rights issues. The collection is vast, covering issues such as child soldiers, sexual exploitation, child labour, street children, children in conflict with the law, child maltreatment and juvenile justice. - [Read more] |
| Save the Children - Resource Section - http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/resources/publications.html A number of SCF papers available online. Quite useful for advocacy: thr National Plan of Action series. - [Read more] |
| Childtrafficking.com Digital Library - http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Library/ Online searchable database of research and documentation of child trafficking. Some of the themes covered: trafficking, sex work, photography and film, repatriation, source side, resources... - [Read more] |
| Committee on the Rights of the Child - http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/index.htm Webpage of the CRC. Texts, composition, database of country reports, reports on sessions including conclusions and recommendations, explanation on individual complaint system. - [Read more] |
| Right to Education during Displacement - http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/LTIO-6SBPF2?OpenDocument This tool identifies the right to education and actions that individuals and organizations can take to fulfill these rights, with a focus on refugees, returnees and internally displaced people. It has been developed for local, regional and international organizations that work with displaced communities. - [Read more] |
| HREA.org study guide - http://www.hrea.org/learn/guides/children.html Study guide on children, provides a very good and easily readable overview of human rights law and mechanisms covering children and youth. - [Read more] |
| HRW section on children - http://hrw.org/children/ All Human Rights Watch documentation related to children. - [Read more] |
| Watchlist - http://www.watchlist.org/ The Watchlist is a network of local, regional and international non-governmental organizations working to protect the security and rights of children in armed conflicts. The Watchlist monitors the impact of armed conflict on children, compiles reports about children, including adolescents. - [Read more] |
| SCF's Conflict Prevention Scorecard - http://www.interaction.org/library/detail.php?id=2290 Although this tool is destined women and children, the method used can be adapted to other target populations to analyse problems affecting it (six dimensions are analysed: protection from sexual violence and physical harm, trafficking and prostitution, military recruitment, psychological trauma, family separation and abuses in camp settings). The section on Response Options offers an inspiring overview of possible protection strategies and activities. Biggish file may be difficult to download. - [Read more] |
| UN Special Representative - http://www.un.org/children/conflict/ Website of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. - [Read more] |
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