See also:
- Action Alliance for Children: Policy Information on Issues Affecting Children & Families - Publishes Children's Advocate newsmagazine covering trends and policy issues affecting children and their families. National and California-wide scope; articles available on-line.
- Canadian Institute of Child Health - Dedicated to improving the health and well-being of children and youth in Canada.
- Child Labor Coalition: Child Labor News
- Child Welfare Services - Extensive information and links related to child welfare issues including: child well-being, child care, neglect, child abuse, kinship care, foster care, adoption, and medical care. From the Welfare Information Network.
- Children Now - Child care, health insurance, children and the media, child support, talking with kids about tough issues (sex, drugs, HIV/AIDS, violence, etc.). U.S. scope, California focus.
- Children’s Budget Report - A Detailed Analysis of Spending on Low-Income Children’s Programs in 13 States (1998)
- Deadbeat moms and dads in America - Exposes deadbeats across America by posting pictures and information of deadbeats sorted by state. Also aims to create and maintain the funding for private investigations and access to family law councilors and lawyers willing to help the less fortunate. You can submit a picture and relevant information of a deadbeat parent to be posted on the site.
- Global Children's Organization - Brings together children who've suffered the horrors of war and, with the help of multinational volunteers, develops peace and reconciliation.
- Juvenile Justice (American Bar Association) - Concerns include right to counsel and representation of delinquent youth, juvenile detention and corrections reform, waiver of juveniles into adult criminal courts, & overrepresention of minority children in the juvenile justice system.
- Kids COUNT - national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States
- 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.
- Reforming the Nation's Family Court System - Child custody for children of divorce. U.S. family courts. Concerns of divorced non-custodial parents.
- Soho Center and the Child/2000 Project - Including the National Children's Literacy Initiative. Working to enhance child care, child nutrition, children's literacy, and school success on a national level through innovative outreach and technology.
- UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child - Also contains a transcript of a discussion on children's legal rights in Australia.
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - UNICEF works for the survival, development and protection of children worldwide, guided in its programmes by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- U.S. Committee for UNICEF - Works in more than 160 countries and territories providing health care, clean water, improved nutrition, and education to millions of children in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
- Work-or-jail child support requirement upheld by appeals court - The judge ruled work-or-jail was "not slavery". (News item)
- YNIC & SCC-Social Change Center - YNIC is a computer base, continuously updated, with over 300 different youth projects and 60 countries, all over the world.
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