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Organisation aims and activities: The agency helps the world's uprooted peoples by providing them with basic necessities such as shelter, food, water and medicine in emergencies and seeking long term
solutions, including voluntary return to their homes or beginning afresh in new countries.
Operational level: International
Works with age groups : Children 0 - 18
Organisation type: United Nations agency
Organisation mandate: Fund other organisations, Lobby governments and the United Nations, Provide training or education on child rights, Research child rights, Work directly with children, Work in partnership with organisations, Work with media and press
Other organisations based in Switzerland:
- 3D -- Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy
- Advocate Voices for Orphans
- Arigatou International
- Association François-Xavier Bagnoud
- Bahá'í International Community
- Bureau International Catholique De L'enfance
- Burma Peace Foundation
- Child Rights Connect (formerly the NGO Group for the CRC)
- Christian Children's Fund - Geneva Office
- CO-OPERAID
- Comité Suisse pour l'UNICEF
- Commission on Human Rights - News Coverage
- CONGO - Conference Of Non-Governmental Organizations
- Defence for Children International
- Defense des Enfants International - Section Suisse
- Development, Innovations and Network
- ECLT Foundation
- ECPAT- Switzerland / Kinderschutz Schweiz
- Edmund Rice International
- European Association for Children in Hospital
- Focal Point on Sexual Exploitation of Children
- Fondation du Présent
- Friends World Committee for Consultation, Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Human Rights Council Secretariat
- Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International
- Human Rights Tribune
- Humanity without Frontiers
- InfoSud
- Institut International Des Droits De L'Enfant
- Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Switzerland
- Inter-Agency Standing Committee
- International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates
- International Bureau of Education
- International Campaign to Ban Landmines
- International Catholic Child Bureau - Switzerland
- International Council Of Women - Switzerland
- International Disability Alliance
- International Federation of Educative Communities - Switzerland
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- International Federation of Social Workers
- International Federation of University Women
- International Federation Terre des Hommes - International Secretariat
- International Institute for the Rights Of The Child
- International Labour Organization
- International Movement
- International Network on Juvenile Justice
- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
- International Service for Human Rights
- International Social Service International Secretariat
- Internationaler Sozialdienst SSI
- Istituto Internazionale Maria Ausiliatrice
- Jesuit Refugee Service
- Maasai Aid Association
- Netzwerk Kinderrechte Schweiz - Réseau suisse des droits de l'enfant
- Office for International Affairs and Human Rights Lutheran World Federation
- Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture
- Pestalozzi Children's Foundation
- Quakers United Nations Office
- Save the Children Switzerland
- Soroptomist International
- Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education
- Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
- Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
- Subgroup on Children in Armed Conflict and Displacement
- Subgroup on Education and Media
- Subgroup on the Sexual Exploitation of Children
- Terre des hommes - child relief
- Tibet Bureau
- TRIAL (Swiss Association Against Impunity)
- UN Commission on Human Rights
- UN Human Rights Council
- UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- UN OHCHR - Committee against Torture
- UN OHCHR - Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- UN OHCHR - Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- UN OHCHR - Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- UN OHCHR - Committee on the Rights of the Child
- UN OHCHR - Human Rights Committee
- UN OHCHR- Committee on Migrant Workers
- UN Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Children - Secretariat
- UNAIDS
- UNHCR Library and Visitors' Centre
- UNICEF Geneva Regional Office
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- Verein Kinderanwaltschaft Schweiz
- Women's World Summit Foundation
- Working Group for the Human Rights Council - NGO Group
- World Council of Churches
- World Health Organisation
- World Organisation of the Scout Movement
- World Vision International - International Liaison Office
Last updated 20/04/2006 05:03:10
CRIN does not accredit or validate any of the organisations listed in our directory. The views and activities of the listed organisations do not necessarily reflect the views or activities of CRIN's coordination team.
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