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There is a full index of web sites referenced in this course at Web site index.
Key web sites for session 1
Most of these websites are held in a separate page listed by country
| Ontario Children's secretariat |
Office of the Ontario Government's Children's Secretariat http://www.childsec.gov.on.ca/ |
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Youth Policy in the Netherlands |
Here, you can
find information on various aspects of youth policy in the Netherlands.
Under organizations, Dutch governmental and non-governmental organizations
related to youth issues are listed.On the NIZW site, English only
speakers should click on the british flag and then choose Publications.
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| Q-web Sweden |
A worldwide
network for the exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas on women's
health issues. |
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UDHR |
National
Coordinating Committee for the 50th Anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
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| Advokids |
Link to BC
Child Youth and Family Adocate page |
| Child Poverty in Manitoba |
Policy paper
based on national statistics. |
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From Social exclusion to social cohesion: towards a policy agenda |
UNESCO
policy paper,
part of the Management
of Social Transformation (MOST) Programme and presented at the Roskilde
Symposium in Denmark in 1995. |
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Future of Children Children and Poverty |
Children
and Poverty is a special 1997 edition of the Futute of Children.
It is dedicated to child poverty. Although presented from the perspective
of US policies the articles present arguments on common issues of
concern such as why levels of children in poverty have risen against
adult numbers. All articles can be downloaded in full. http://www.futureofchildren.org/cap/index.htm |
| Growing up in Poverty |
Growing up
in Poverty: Family Life on the Edge of the Dutch Welfare State.
On the NIZW site, English only speakers should click on the british
flag and then choose Publications. |
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National center for children in poverty |
Identifying
and promoting strategies to reduce the young child poverty rate
and to improve the life chances of children still living inpoverty. |
| National Council of Welfare Canada |
A citizens'
advisory body to the Minister of Human Resources Development Canada
on matters of concern to low-income Canadians. |
| Q-web Sweden |
A worldwide
network for the exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas on women's
health issues. |
| Sociosite |
Web links to
poverty related sites supplied by Sociosite at the University of
Amsterdam home page. |
| Stockholm School of Economics |
paper on links
between income inequality and income mobility in Scandinavian countries
and US. |
| Sure start |
The Aim of
Sure Start is to work with parents and children to promote the physical,
intellectual and social development of pre-school children - particularly
those who are disadvantaged - to ensure they are ready to thrive
when they get to school. |
| TASH |
The Association
for Persons with Severe Handicaps in 1983. US-based site focusing
on poverty and self-reliance. |
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World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen 1995 |
Canada's People
First report on progress on WSSD summit issues for presentation
at Geneva 2000 conference |
Key web sites for session 5
| A Sporting Chance |
Paper in 'Research'
and then 'Reports' on tackling child labour in India's sports goods
industry |
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Childwatch Children and Prostitution |
Childwatch
International Research Network is a nonprofit, nongovernmental network
for institutions and individuals involved in research for children. |
| Getting There |
A Review of
the Implementation of the Report of the Gove Inquiry into Child
Protection.Source: Ombudsman of the Province of British Columbia,
1998. |
| Law and the Internet: Regulating Cyberspace website | Site
by PhD student at Leeds University, UK stuhttp://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/governan.htm http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/governan.htm |
| Lost in Care |
Guardian site
on Waterhouse report with link to full text of conclusion. |
| Joseph Rowntree Foundation Web Site |
JRF - A rich source of information - including The Knowledgebase allowing
you to search the entire site, Research summaries (Findings), Current
research in progress, Responses to Government consultation, Press
Room, Information about our housing operations and care services,
project funding, research prioritiesand research funding. A rich source
of information. http://www.jrf.org.uk/home.asp |
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National Centre for missing children Exploited child unit |
US national
centre site: Exploited child unit
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National Centre for missing children Sex tourism |
US national
centre site: Exploited child unit - sex tourism |
| Quality Protects |
The
programme is a key part of the Government's wider strategy for tackling
social exclusion. It focuses on working with some of the most disadvantaged
and vulnerable children in our society. Those children looked after
by councils in the child protection system; and other children in
need. http://www.doh.gov.uk/qualityprotects/ |
| American Refugee Committee (ARC) |
ARC is a nonprofit,
nonsectarian, humanitarian organization working for the survival,
health, and well-being of refugees and displaced persons affected
by war. ARC works with uprooted people to help them rebuild lives. |
| Centre for World Indigenous Studies |
Advancing co-operation
and consent between nations. |
| Children of the Storm | Home Page a UK based refugee charity working to educate schools and other agencies about the needs of young asylum seekers http://www.cotstorm.demon.co.uk/ |
| Children's Watch |
Great leads
to global news stories and links about children's rights. |
| Demeter Parliament - Links page | Like an online course/resource from Sweden - some links do not seem to be available. Like the children's project with interviews with refugee children, but very useful web resource library. http://www.distans.hkr.se/demeter/parliament/library/links.html |
| Demeter Parliament - The abuse of children | The Children's Rights Party: Includes 'The Abandoned Children, the Spoiled Children (Poem)'. http://www.distans.hkr.se/demeter/parliament/library/abuse.html |
| Field of dreams - Life in a refugee settlement | New Internationalist Issue 283. A day in the life of a refugee camp. Our images of refugees, particularly in Africa, are conditioned by the sea of despairing faces that we see on our television screens, but what is life really like for the thousands of refugees forced from their homes. 11/2/99 http://www.oneworld.org/ni/issue283/ |
| From Kosova War - to Swedish Arrest | The
storey of a Selvete Nura, a child refuge http://boes.org/actions/europe/deportation2.html |
| Future of refugee children |
Amnesty International
sight on giving refugee children a future - what must be done? |
| Global express |
Educational
resource about refugees aimed at children |
| Human Rights Watch |
Human Rights
Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around
the world. |
| Joseph Rowntree Foundation Web Site |
JRF - A rich source of information - including The Knowledgebase allowing
you to search the entire site, Research summaries (Findings), Current
research in progress, Responses to Government consultation, Press
Room, Information about our housing operations and care services,
project funding, research prioritiesand research funding. A rich source
of information. http://www.jrf.org.uk/home.asp |
| Key words for Refugeee children searches |
This site
is like a dictionary or thesaurus and helps break down terms in
to associated key words in the English language. |
| Missing children society of Canada |
MCSC is a registered
non-profit organization dedicated to the search for runaway and
abducted children. |
| Rejected asylum seekers: the problem of return |
Full text version
of working paper of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Working
Paper No. 4 Gregor Noll, University of Lund, Sweden |
| UNCHR |
The premier
online source for refugee-related information including country
profiles, news, maps, publications, teachers' modules, 'Witness'
multimedia documentaries and REFWORLD |
| UNCHR Refugee Case Law | UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Refugee Case Law United Nations Committee Against Torture Decisions http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/legal/refcas/refcas.htm |
| UNCHR statistics |
United Nations
High Commissioner For Refugees. Overview of statistics related to
refugees and others of concern to the UNHCR |
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UNCRC |
Multilingual
Human Rights page. Children's rigths across the world |
| Warchild |
War Child provides
food, medicine and other basic humanitarian needs .. but also keeps
fighting for children long after the war has finished. |
| War Games | Amnesty
Intermnational Campaign to stop child soldiers http://www.amnesty.org.uk/childrights |
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Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children |
Advocating
for the rights of refugee and displaced women, children and adolescents
around the world. |
Key web sites for session 7
| Evaluating Internet Resources |
This Web site provides guildeines for evaluating the quality of Web-based
information. These guidelines can also be used by Web authors to help
ensure that the information they present is easy to use and can be
recognized as being of high information content value. http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm |
| Evaluation of information sources | The
World Wide Web Virtual Library criteria for evaluating information
resources. This page contains pointers to criteria for evaluating
information resources, particularly those on the Internet. It is intended
to be particularly useful to librarians and others who are selecting
sites to include in an information resource guide, or informing users
as to the qualities they should use in evaluating Internet information. http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm |
| Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses |
Bibliography
and Checklist for the University of North Carolina |
| Internet Social Worker | An
interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of Internet resources
from NISW. Includes A "teach yourself" tutorial on Internet information
skills for social workers ; Tour some key Internet sites for social
workers; Discover tools and techniques to improve your Internet searching;
Review the critical thinking required when using the Internet; Reflect
on how to use the Internet for studying, teaching or research. http://www.sosig.ac.uk/subject-guides/socwel.html/ |
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Web Search Strategies |
This site
presents an easy-to-follow process on using search engines and subject
directories for finding what you need on the World Wide Web. |
Key web sites for session 8
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