Resources On Children's Rights

Organizations\Campaigns

1world communication

Web site with special section on children's rights. Updated several times a week.

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Global Campaign for Education is a world wide coalition of development NGOs such as Action Aid, The Global March Against Child Labour, Oxfam International, national NGO Coalitions from Bangladesh, Brazil, South Africa, and the global teachers unions confederation Education International.

For further information, please contact Dominique Marlet, Education International; Tel (32 2) 224 06 80

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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. Casa Alianza is the Latin American branch of the New York-based Covenant House.

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Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch

Children's Rights Division of the Human Rights Watch. Established the Children's Rights Division in 1994 to monitor human rights abuses against children around the world.

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South Asia Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS).

A regional organization with 300 chapters across south Asia.

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United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)

USAS is an organization of 200 campuses working on a national campaign to stop sweatshops. Formed in 1998 as a loose coalition of students from campus groups working on the Sweat-Free campus campaign, to facilitate communication and coordination among the campus groups working on the campaign; to give students a unified voice in taking on national targets; and to provide a national network and base.

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Videos\Films

Children At Work

by Sheila Franklin

Produced in 2000 by 1world production. Children At Work concerns child labor in India.

"This video represents a substantial contribution to the movement to end child labor and sweatshop abuses. It includes valuable footage exposing the travesty of child labor and bonded labor in India. It should be a useful tool for educators and organizers alike."

Charles Kernaghan, Director, National Labor Committee

"The children who are enslaved and forced to (work are exposed to) an endless life of misery and exploitation. "Children at Work", brings hope in the jungle of digits, and reaffirms our collective commitment that one day, we shall overcome the evil of child labour."

Kailesh Satyarthi, Chairperson, South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude

20 minutes; English; To order click on title above.

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HIGHWAY TO HELL

A film on cross border trafficking of girls for prostitution - from Nepal to India. Shot in Nepal and India, "Highway to Hell" is made by award winning filmmaker Meera Dewan with Niraja Rao, Produced by Southview Productions for MARG (Multiple Action Research Group) funded by CIDA.

Video; 38 min; 2000; English

For further details contact at MARG, Tel.: (91 11) 649 7483, 649 5371, 649 6925; Fax: (91 11) 649 5371; Email: marg@del2.vsnl.net.in

 

 

Publications

Child Labor News Service, a bi-monthly news letter of the South Asia Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS). To subscribe send and e-mail to: yatra@del2.vsnl.net.in

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Children In Combat A 1996 Special Report by Human Right Watch. Other HRW reports on Children.

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The Dark Side of Football - Child and Adult Labour in India's Football Industry' released on June 10th by the India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN)

For a printed copy contact ICN, Mariaplaats, 4, 3511 LH Utrecht, The Netherlands, Tel. (31 30) 232 1340; Fax (31 30) 232 2246

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A Link to UNICEF's Report "The State of the World's Children". (click on picture above)

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United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child

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