Goodhart: Human Rights
Chapter 13
Casa Alianza – UK
www.casa-alianza.org.uk
Casa Alianza is an international, non-governmental organization dedicated to the rehabilitation and defence of street children in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico.
Child Rights Information Network
www.crin.org/
CRIN is a global network coordinating and promoting information and action on child rights. CRIN presses for rights, not charity, for children and is guided by a passion for putting children’s rights at the top of the global agenda by addressing root causes and promoting systematic change. Its guiding framework is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
International Labour Organization - IPEC
www.ilo.org/ipec/lang--en/index.htm
The ILO International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) gives insights into current international approaches to the problem of child labour.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - CRC
www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/index.htm
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committee reviews national implementation of the CRC and its web site includes national reports submitted to the Committee and the Committee’s evaluations and recommendations.
UNICEF website
www.unicef.org
As the leading international children’s organization, the official UNICEF website is a core source of international children’s rights policies and programmes.
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
www.unicef-irc.org
This website collates research on children globally related to UNICEF’s mandate and implementation of the CRC. The centre has useful databases and research papers highlighting the challenges to effective implementation of the CRC.
UNICEF Statistics and Monitoring
www.unicef.org/statistics
UNICEF measures the situation of children and women and tracks progress through data collection and analysis. It maintains and updates global databases and promotes dissemination of evidence-based data for planning and advocacy. UNICEF is the lead United Nations agency responsible for the global monitoring of the child-related MDGs.
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, Committee on the Rights of the Child
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/crc-page.html
The website provides a wide set of core children’s rights documents.
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