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If you would like to have your organisation's website added to this list please email the coordinator
Thanks to the Alliance for Children’s Entitlement to Social Security for most of these links
SA Newspapers - online versions of most SA's newspapers
South African Organisations involved in children's issues
SA National Alliances and Networks Aids Consortium, http://www.aidsconsortium.org.za The Alliance for Children’s Entitlement to Social Security Children In Distress ,http://www.togan.co.za/cindi Child Justice Alliance, http://www.childjustice.org.za Gun Control Alliance, http://www.gca.org.za SA Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, http://www.saspcan.org.za South African Council of Churches, http://www.sacc.org.za Treatment Action Campaign, http://www.tac.org.za SA NGOs
Active Learning and Leisure
Libraries Centre for Early Childhood Education http://www.cecd.org.za/Index.htm
Childline South African civil society organization provides
counseling and support to children and their families, especially in cases
of child abuse ChildrenFIRST produces a bi-monthly magazine on children’s rights from an African perspective. 67 Diakonia Centre, 20 St Andrews Street, Durban, 4001 South Africa http://www.childrenfirst.org.za/ office@childrenfirst.org.za Children’s Institute formerly Child Health Policy Institute (CHPI) hosts a directory of orgsanisations in South Africa aims at improving the situation of children especially in relation to the problems posed by HIV and AIDS. Child Rights Project http://www.sn.apc.org/users/clc/children/ based at Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape Centre for http://www.csvr.org.za/ Child HIV/AIDS Services Directory www.uct.ac.za/depts/chu/chpi.htm a directory of children’s organisations involved in HIV/AIDS issues in South Africa Lifeline Children’s Rights Centre (CRC) Diketso Eseng Dipuo Community Development Trust (DEDI) Durban Children's Society (DCS) Early Learning Resource Unit - ELRU Institute for Partnerships between Education and Business (IPEB) Lifeline http://www.lifeline.org.za/ all the details for their telephonic Crisis support Lawyers for Human Rights http://www.lhr.org.za/ Masikhule Early Childhood Development Centre
Molo Songololo – produces a
magazine for children on various aspects
of children’s rights
molo@mweb.co.za NICRO http://www.nicro.org.za/ NICRO is a national crime prevention non-profit organization working towards a safer South Africa. The offender reintegration, community victim support, diversion and youth development and the economic opportunities project services are offered in all nine provinces. Quaker Peace Centre http://www.quaker.org/capetown/ RAPCAN http://www.rapcan.org.za/ Resources against Child Abuse and Neglect Rape Crisis http://www.rapecrisis.org.za/ Counselling service to women and men, over the age of 16, who have been raped or sexually assaulted. Rape in South Africa http://www.rape.co.za/ . An ongoing forum where rape survivors and people involved with rape crisis may hold ongoing discussions, post new topics and chat to other survivors or counsellors online. SANCA - South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence http://www.sn.apc.org/sanca
SASPCAN a South African
organisation that brings together a wide
range of organizations and around
children’s rights and child protection
contact c/o of
childlin@global.co.za or
Soul City
http://www.soulcity.org.za/ contact
Training and Resources in Early Education (TREE) Tivoneleni Vavasati Aids Awareness Project (TVAAP) United Nations Development Programme http://www.undp.org.za/
Women’s Health News and Views –
newsletter of the Women’s Health Project
Bernard van Leer – especially on
Early Childhood Matters, CHIN - Children in Need Network, Zambia http://www.chin.org.zm/ Children in Need Network (CHIN) is a network of over 70 organisations serving children in need in Zambia. This site provides links to a southern African children’s rights network. Childwatch http://childhouse.uio.no/childwatch Information on projects includes details of indicators fro children’s rights; “growing up in cities” and “A Manual of Child Participation”. Defence for Children International www.childhub.ch/webpub/dcihome independent non-governmental organisation set up during the year of the Child (1979) to ensure on-going, practical, systematic and concerted international action specially directed towards promoting and protecting the rights of the child.
EPOCH (End Physical Punishment of
Children-USA)
Radda Barnen including Children of War
Newsletter
Save the Children (UK) - Postal
17 grove Lane, London, SE5 8RD, UK UNICEF – www.unicef.org works for the protection of children’s rights across the world. Their web site has useful information including a photo gallery that may be used freely. They also produce State of the World’s Children annually. UNICEF- PO Box 4884 Pretoria 0001; e-mail: unicefsa@unicef.org.za
Children’s Budget Project, Idasa http://www.idasa.org.za/ follow links from home page to BIS (Budget Information Service) to our project – Children’s Budget “Children - voiceless and particularly vulnerable - are dealt a mixed hand in government spending. The Children's Budget Project is dedicated to helping the government and civil society meet children's needs within budgetary constraints” Commission on Gender Equality http://www.cge.org.za/ The Commission on Gender Equality is one of the six State Institutions Supporting Constitutional Democracy called for in the 1996 Constitution. Idasa WebSite http://www.idasa.org.za/ Idasa is an independent non-profit public interest organisation promoting democracy in South Africa Independent Complaint Directorate ww.icd.gov.za Parliament of South Africa http://www.parliament.gov.za/ Website of the Parliament of South Africa Parliamentary Monitoring Group http://www.pmg.org.za/ The Parliamentary Monitoring Group Infobase contains minutes of parliamentary committees drawn up by volunteers, together with accompanying documents handed out at meetings such as public submissions, bills and briefings on government policy & draft legislation Provincial Parliamentary Programme www.ppp.org.za/links.html is a non-partisan organisation networking with a range of interest groups in KwaZulu-Natal. Through its monitoring, lobbying and capacity building programmes, it strives to ensure that the provincial policy and legislative processes are transparent, accessible and accountable. Public Protector www.polity.org.za/govt/pubprot South African Government http://www.polity.org.za/ and www.polity.org.za/lists/govsites.html Website of the South African Government
South African Human Rights Commission
www.sahrc.org.za
or telephone
South African Law Commission www.law.wits.ac.za/salc/salc.html Women'sNet http://www.womensnet.org.za/ Women'sNet is a networking support programme designed to enable South African women to use the Internet to find people, issues, resources and tools needed for women's social action.
Children's House childhouse.uio.nodhouse.uio.no/ Children's House is an interactive resource center - a meeting place for the exchange of information that serves the well being of children. Boes.org www.boes.org/protect.html Children's Rights material including the Convention on the Rights of the Child in many different languages. "Multilingual Children's Rights Across the World wide Web since August 8 '96" Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International photon-63.iprolink.ch/~huridocs HURIDOCS is a global network of human rights organisations whose aim is to improve access to and the dissemination of public information on human rights through more effective, appropriate and compatible methods and techniques of information handling. One World - The Rights of the Child www.oneworld.org/child_rights/child_rights.html One world online guide bringing together material from all over the world to give you a quick and accessible introduction to subjects. Select child rights from the pull down list for a guide to children's rights issues, information and relevant links. The Rights of the Child www.pbs.org/tal/un/childrights.html A summary of the key points of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. University of Minnesota Human Rights Library www.umn.edu/humanrts This is an important site for human rights information and has a number of full text documents related to the CRC. offering electronic versions of all official documents relating to the convention.
The AIDS Consortium
http://www.aidsconsortium.org.za/ provides access to
information on any aspect of HIV/AIDS and lobbies for a
human rights-based response to the epidemic.
AFSA
http://www.aids.org.za/ P.O Box 50582, Musgrave, 4062,
South Africa, e-mail:
karen@aids.org.za , phone:
AIDS Bulletin – Medical Science Research Council, South Africa mrc.org.za AIDS Law Project www.hri.ca/partners/alp HIV/AIDS legal and human rights organisation has lots of useful and important documents that can be downloaded from the site. The AIDS Law Project uses legal action to rectify human rights abuses against people with HIV. They are also TAC's lawyers. Actuarial Society of South Africa's ASSA 2000 AIDS model This is the summary page of the results given by the Actuarial Society of South Africa's ASSA 2000 AIDS model. The results give key indicators assuming that the epidemic is left to run its course without health interventions. ASSA 2000 is the best model available on the extent and course of the South African epidemic. It has been meticulously researched by some of South Africa's most respected academics. It has a great advantage over its closest competitor, the Doyle model developed at Metropolitan Life, in that it is open-source and transparent. All its assumptions and calculations can be examined by other researchers. AEGIS This huge website, possibly the largest one dedicated to HIV, contains an enormous amount of information. It is updated very often; according to the site, every hour.
The African Counselling Network (has
links to counsellors providing AIDS counselling or doing
AIDS research)
AIDS Legal Network. aidslegal.co.za
Telephone
AIDS Law Project's - Resource Centre http://wwwserver.law.wits.ac.za/cals/alp/resource/index.shtml
AIDS Information Dissemination Site, Southern
Africa AREPP Educational Trust - Theatre & Puppetry for Social Education, also known as Puppets against AIDS Beat It! idol.co.za/productions/hiv/index.html This site contains information on Beat It! a TV series being shown in South Africa, which focuses on HIV issues.
CINDI - (Children in Distress)
www.togan.co.za/cindi/2000.htm established in mid
1996, is an informal consortium of non-government
organisations (NGOs) based in Pietermaritzburg, the
capital of the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa’s
most populous province. c/o Youth for Christ, 1 Durban
Road, Pietermaritzburg 3201. P O Box 1659,
Pietermaritzburg 3200. Tel.
Cotlands Baby Sanctuary (for abused, abandoned and AIDS babies) Francois-Xavier Bagnoud http://www.fxb.org/ focus on orphans and AIDS NIH: Focus on the HIV-AIDS Connection www.niaid.nih.gov/newsroom/focuson/hiv00/default.htm This excellent site contains extensive documentation demonstrating beyond any reasonable scientific doubt that HIV causes AIDS. Panos Institute www.panos.org.uk The Panos Institute has recently published a superb booklet on HIV called "Beyond Our Means". Their site is definitely worth visiting. UNAIDS - (Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS) http://www.unaids.org/
Article 12 http://www.article12.uk.com/ Article 12 is a new, exciting and unique organisation run entirely by children and young people under the age of 18. Our special focus is Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. United Nations Cyberschoolbus www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus The UN CyberSchoolBus is designed for students and teachers everywhere and carries projects and resources about the United Nations and the world we all share. Children and Youth www.ncpc.org/child.htm Activities, Games & Tips for Kids Ages 5-12 Children's Express www.childrens-express.org/html/khome.htm is unique: a growing national news agency, and a charity, where young people aged 8-18 produce articles on issues that are important to THEM, but of interest to EVERYONE. News by children for everyone
Casa Alianza Convent House Latin America http://www.casa-alianza.org/en/news.php Casa Alianza is an independent, nonprofit organisation dedicated to the rehabilitation and defense of street children in Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. Casa Alianza is the Latin American branch of the New York-based Covenant House, whose President is Sister Mary Rose McGeady D.C. A leading advocate of children's rights in the region, Casa Alianza is headquartered in San José, Costa Rica Right To Survival And Development
Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography
Online Edition
Childhood - A Global Journal Of Child Research
Parenting & families from ERIC Clearinghouse deals with multi-culturalism, anger, adolescence, roles for fathers, spanking, ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/npin/respar/texts/parfami.html Discipline & Corporal Punishment Never Hit A Child http://www.neverhitachild.org/ For more information on corporal punishment (hitting and smacking) including links to other interesting sites
Play -Train - training and development for creative playwork. www.playtrn.demon.co.uk Provides training and consultancy for organisations working with children. Carries out research and development projects, bringing fresh ideas to bear on key issues in work with children. PLAY•TRAIN is an independent not-for-profit agency founded in 1981. A professional team. Aims to increase opportunities for school-age children to be creative and express their identity in all kinds of out-of-school settings. Challenges discrimination and inequality and are committed to equal opportunities for all children and work to implement Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Health-e http://www.health-e.org.za/ is a news agency dedicated to producing news and analysis for the print and electronic media regarding health policy and practice in South Africa. Our particular focus is to report on health issues affecting the poor and disadvantaged, and the implications of different health policies for our society as a whole. Medecins Sans Frontiere http://www.msf.org/ Children’s Right To Protection
Child Abuse and Neglect www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/5/8/6/ An international, multidisciplinary forum on all aspects of child abuse and neglect including sexual abuse, with special emphasis on prevention and treatment Children in Armed Conflict Unit www2.essex.ac.uk/c&acu/Default.htm will develop a system for collecting accurate, child-centred information not otherwise available. The Unit will use this information to carry out the following activities. * Monitor compliance with and violations of legal standards and norms applicable to children. * Provide good practice guidelines, fact sheets and other information materials based on expert analysis Children of War www.rb.se/chilwar/index.htm A newsletter on child soldiers from Rädda Barnen - Swedish Save the Children. Published quarterly by Radda Barnen, Swedish Save the Children, for the purpose of campaigning against the use of child soldiers. Fully searchable content Child Labour - International Labour Organisation http://www.ilo.org/public/english/index.htm Contains information, policies and documentation. Find details of a kit assembles information on the nature and extent of child labour. It includes factsheets describing particular hazardous forms of child labour and ILO action aimed at eliminating them. It also provides an overview of the issues and debates surrounding the proposed Convention and contains the text of the Convention and Recommendation. This can be downloaded from http://www.ilo.org/public/english/index.htm Child Safety on the Internet www.voicenet.com/~cranmer/censorship.html Details of some resources providing information on child safety, censorship, privacy and personal freedom on the Internet ECPAT International http://www.ecpat.net/ ECPAT is a global network of organisations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. It seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free and secure from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation. Contains Information about ECPAT, its international projects , reports and news updates. Children’s Rights And Urban Environment
Cities and Children www.unicef.org/voy/meeting/urb/urbhome.html Information on how an urban environment affects the development of a child. Includes a discussion forum with ideas on urban improvement. Growing up in Cities www.unesco.org/most/growing.htm United Nations Development Programme www.undp.org/un/habitat
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