Child rights links


General – Children rights


International Save the Children Alliance

Defence for Children International (DEI)

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)

Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN)

International Federation Terre des Hommes

The International Institute for the Rights of the Child (IDE)

International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Right to Play

UNICEF- Home

UNICEF's Innocenti Research Centre



General human rights

Amnistie International

Human Rights Watch Country pages

United Nations Human Rights: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Transparency international



Children affected by armed conflict

Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

War Child International Network



Child health and education

UNAIDS- The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV-AIDS

UNESCO-Education

WHO Health and Human Rights



Child labour


International Labour Organization

Understanding Children's Work



Child participation

Save the children



Juvenile justice and child victims and witnesses of crime

Centre for Children & Families in the Justice System

International Victimology Website

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)

The Center for Victims of Torture

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

World Organization Against Torture (OMCI)

World Society of Victimology



Refugee children

Canadian Council for Refugees

European Council on Refugees and Exiles

UN High Commissioner for Refugees



Sexual exploitation and abuse of children

Beyond Borders (Canada)

Cybertip.ca (Canada's National Tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children)

ECPAT International

Focal Point on Sexual Exploitation, Violence and Abuse of Children

International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)

Interpol

National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre (Canada)

Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the Sale of Children: Child Prostitution and Pornography



Trafficking and migration of children

Anti-Slavery International

International Organization for Migration (IOM)



Regional centres

Asia-Pacific Regional Resource Center for Human Rights Education (ARRC)

Casa Alianza Latinoamerica

Childcentre-Children at Risk in the Baltic Sea Region

Instituto Interamericano del Niño, la Niña y Adolescentes

The African Child Policy Forum



General country info


UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

UNICEF-Information by country

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

The World Bank



International treaties and conventions

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

Bayefsky.com-The UN Human Rights Treaties

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)-Convention on the Rights of the Child

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Convention concerning the Elimination of the worst Forms of Child Labour (C-182)

Convention concerning the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment (C-138)

Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age of Marriage and Registration of Marriages

Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Convention relating to the Status of Refugees

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees

Right to Education

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

UNHCR Treaty Body Database

United Nations Treaty Collection-Treaty Reference Guide

UNICEF-Convention on the Rights of the Child

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

 

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