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	Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman BellaOnline's Human Rights Editor

Amnesty International [offsite link]
As human beings, children are entitled to all the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but children also need special protection and care. Children´s human rights are the blocks with which we build a human rights culture in societies and secure human rights for future generations. Take Action to Protect and Promote the Human Rights of Children Around the World. Read Amnesty International´s key concerns and recommendations »

BBC World Service [offsite link]

Children´s Rights [offsite link]
Children’s Rights is the nation’s leading organization promoting and protecting the rights of abused and neglected children in failing foster care systems, using policy analysis, public education and the power of the courts.

CHILDREN´S RIGHTS ADVOCACY [offsite link]
Children´s Rights Advocacy

Children´s Rights Council [offsite link]
Formed in 1985, the Children´s Rights Council (CRC) is a national non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that works to assure children meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents´ marital status.

Children´s Rights Information Network [offsite link]

Childrens Rights [offsite link]

Circumcision Awareness [offsite link]
Jan Zeiger, BellaOnline´s Natural Living editor, features a must see page regarding this topic including an information center and several timely links on the ethical nature of circumcision in the twenty-first century.

CRIN [offsite link]
The Convention on the Rights of the Child treaty spells out the basic human rights that children everywhere - without discrimination - have: the right to survival; to develop to the fullest; to protection from harmful influences, abuse and exploitation; to participate fully in family, cultural and social life. The key objectives of the Child Rights Information Network are to improve the lives of children by: meeting the information needs of organisations and individuals working f

Grandparents For Children´s Rights [offsite link]
National Committee of Grandparents For Children´s Rights, Inc.

Human Rights Watch/Children [offsite link]
Human Rights Watch established the Children´s Rights Division in 1994 to monitor human rights abuses against children around the world and to campaign to end them.

Human Rights Watch~Children [offsite link]
Excellent site.

International Bureau of Children´s Rights [offsite link]
Making Children´s Rights Work: National and International Perspectives

Iranian Children [offsite link]
Iranian children´s Rights Society

Sex Offenders
The term itself conjures up horrific images of predators, rapists, slaughter. And while this article certainly is not intended to vindicate anyone guilty of those horrific crimes, clarification as to what the term encompasses is in order.

The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers [offsite link]
The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers works to prevent the recruitment and use of children as soldiers, to secure their demobilisation and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration into society.

The Natural Child Project [offsite link]
Welcome to The Natural Child Project Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.

UNICEF [offsite link]

US Predator and Offender Laws
The current report issued by the Human Rights Watch highlights sex offender laws in the United States with a not-so-surprising discovery: Current policy not only fails to protect the innocent, but more often than not causes more damage than good.

Vitamin Angel Alliance
"Vitamin Angel Alliance, a non-profit, non-sectarian organization, was created in 1994 to fight malnutrition and childhood blindness around the world."

Women, Children, and HIV [offsite link]
The goal of this site is to contribute to an improvement in the scale and quality of international HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment programs for women and children by increasing access to authoritative HIV/AIDS information.

World Orphan Week
October 2-8 marks the annual recognition of World Orphan Week, a campaign to raise awareness for the cause of orphans and abandoned children all over the world. SOS Childrens Villages is one charity meeting exactly that need.

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