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Index of key web sites
| Advokids |
Link to BC
Children and Youth office page |
| 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. |
| Article 12 in Scotland | Article
12 is a national (Scottish) network of young people which promotes
youth rights as laid out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child. http://www.article12.org/index2.htm |
| Barnardo's |
UK children's
organisation |
| British Agencies for Fostering and Adoption |
Promotes best
practice in both adoption and fostering services for children separated
from their families. |
| Centre for World Indigenous Studies |
Advancing co-operation
and consent between nations. |
| Child Poverty in Manitoba |
Policy paper
based on national statistics |
| Child Welfare Resource Centre (Canada) |
Building links
in the world of child welfare |
| Children Act Report 1995-1999 | Department of Health Report to 'describe the main changes and developments since the last report (1995); and, to set a new framework to track progress on a number of initiatives, principally the Quality Protects(QP) programme.' http://www.doh.gov.uk/scg/chactrep.htm |
| Children's Watch |
Great leads
to global news stories and links about children's rights. |
|
Childwatch Children and Prostitution |
Childwatch
International Research Network is a nonprofit, nongovernmental network
for institutions and individuals involved in research for children. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| From Kosova War - to Swedish Arrest |
The storey
of a Selvete Nura, a child refuge |
|
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. |
| Future of refugee children |
Amnesty International
site |
| 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. |
| Global express |
Educational
resource about refugees aimed at children |
| 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. |
| Human Rights Watch |
Human Rights
Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around
the world. |
| 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/ |
| 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/ |
| 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. |
| Missing children society of Canada |
MCSC is a registered
non-profit organization dedicated to the search for runaway and
abducted children. |
| Multilingual Human Rights Child Rights |
To Prepare
a Future Multilingual Human Rights Child Rights Children's Rights
Across the World |
|
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 Centre for missing children Sex tourism |
US national
centre site: Exploited child unit - sex tourism |
| 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. |
| One World | http://www.oneworld.net/article/frontpage/10/3 |
| Q-web Sweden |
A worldwide
network for the exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas on women's
health issues. |
| 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/ |
| Save the Children | http://www.savethechildren.net |
| Social Services Inspectorate | UK
Social Services Inspectorate http://www.doh.gov.uk/cos/ssi/standard.htm |
| Sociosite |
Web links to
poverty related sites supplied by Sociosite at the University of
Amsterdam home page. |
| Sporting Chance |
Paper in 'Research'
and then 'Reports' on tackling child labour in India's sports goods
industry |
| 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. |
| UNESCO |
UNESCO home page http://www.unesco.org |
| UNESCO | From
social exclusion to social cohesion : towards a policy agenda. The
Roskilde Symposium 2-4 March 1995 University of Roskilde, Denmark
by Sophie Bessis http://www.unesco.org/most/besseng.htm |
| UNCHR |
The premier
online source for refugee-related information including country
profiles, news, maps, publications, teachers' modules, 'Witness'
multimedia documentaries and REFWORLD |
| UNCRC |
UN Convention on the rights of the child http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm |
| The UNCRC - 10 years after |
Promises broken:
Assessment of Children's Rights on the 10th Anniversary on the Convention
of the Rights of the Child. |
| United Nations |
UN home page |
| 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 |
|
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. |
| Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children | Advocating
for the rights of refugee and displaced women, children and adolescents
around the world. http://www.womenscommission.org |
| Youth in Care |
Canadian
National Youth in Care Network |
|
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. |
