Organisation aims and activities: The WCC is a fellowship of churches in more than 120 countries from virtually all Christian traditions. The 'Dignity of Children' project aims to strengthen churches support for the rights and dignity of children through networking, information and resources sharing and awareness building.
Operational level: International
Works with age groups : Children 0 - 18
Organisation type: NGO - non governmental organisation
Organisation mandate: Lobby governments and the United Nations, Provide training or education on child rights, Research child rights, Work in partnership with organisations, Work with media and press
Areas of expertise: Armed conflict, Child participation, Children working and living on the street, Education and cultural rights, Refugee and unaccompanied children, Sexual exploitation and abuse
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 High Commission for Refugees
- 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 Health Organisation
- World Organisation of the Scout Movement
- World Vision International - International Liaison Office
Organisations working in similar fields:
- GOAL Ireland
- ABC Words in Action Corporation
- African Child Association
- African Commission on Human and People's Rights
- African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect - Liberia Chapter
- AKSHAYA Rehabilitation Trust
- Allied Youth Initiative - Uganda
- Amnesty International Children's Human Rights Network
- Anita Home
- Anti-Slavery International
- Arab Institute for Human Rights
- Associação Brasileira de Magistrados, Promotores de Justiça e Defensores Públicos da Infância e Juventude
- Association Appui à la Rue
- Association Communautaire Pour la Promotion et la Protection des Droits de l'Homme
- Association Défis - Jeunes pour le Développement
- Association for the Promotion and Progress of Children in Khenchela
- Association pour l'Encadrement des Orphelins et l'Education à la Paix
- Autre Vie
- Bangladesh Coalition for Child Rights
- Bangladesh Mohila Unnayan Sanghstha
- Bureau international catholique de l'enfance
- Bureau international catholique de l'enfance - France
- Canadian International Development Agency
- CARE USA
- Carrefour Tiers Monde Togo
- Center for Human Rights
- Center for the Human Rights of Children
- Centre For Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)
- Centre for Women and Children's Rights
- Centre for Women's Studies - University of Nijmegen
- Centro Internazionale Studi Famiglia
- CFG International
- Cherish the Kids Liberia
- Child Fund International
- Child Helpline Cameroon
- Child Helpline Somalia (CHS)
- Child Mirror Liberia Incorporated
- Child Rights Brigade International
- Child Rights Information and Documentation Centre
- Child Rights International Network
- Child Rights Legal Centre
- Child Welfare and Peace Society
- Child-to-Child Trust
- Children and Women Empowerment Society
- Children Center International Liberia
- Children Concern Organisation
- Children First - Pakistan
- Children in Adversity Consultation website
- Children of the Andes
- Children Today Centre
- Children's International Summer Villages Côte d'Ivoire
- Children's Rights Project, Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape
- ChildRight
- Christian Children's Fund - Geneva Office
- Community Children Organisation (COCO)
- Consortium for Street Children
- Defence for Children International
- Defence for Children International - Costa Rica
- Defence for Children International - Nigeria Section
- Defensores PROCDN
- Dogodogo Centre Street Children Trust
- Dynamic Action for Rural Education
- Enfants du Monde - Droits de l'Homme
- Espoir pour les Enfants
- European Network of Masters in Children’s Rights
- Fondation Chretienne des Enfants Campagnards d'Haiti
- Fortress Nigeria
- Friends in Peace and Community Development
- Fundacion Rafael Pombo
- Generosity International Lifecare Development Coalition
- Global March South Asian Secretariat/CWIN Nepal
- Good Neighbours Care
- Groupe d'Action de la Réduction de la Pauvreté et des Inégalité Sociales
- Groupe International de Parole de Femmes
- Grupo Iniciativa Nacional por los Derechos del Niño, GIN-PERU
- Gulu Support the Children Organisation
- HAQ: Centre for Child Rights
- Hellenic Association Of Poltical Scientists
- Human Rights - First the Child
- Information and Research Centre at King Hussein Foundation
- Institute of Human Development and Training
- Integrated Regional Information Networks - IRIN
- International Catholic Child Bureau - Switzerland
- International Centre for Child and Youth Studies
- International Child Development Initiatives
- International Federation Terre des Hommes - International Secretariat
- Iraqi National University for NGOs
- Jammu and Kashmir Child Rights Trust
- Jonathan's Child Care Center Sierra Leone
- Joy for Children - Uganda
- Justice for Children, Uganda
- Karen Human Rights Group
- Kindernothilfe
- Kindernothilfe (Africa Representation Office)
- Kinderombudsman
- Lembaga Advokasi Anak Indonesia
- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights
- Maison des Droits de l'Enfant
- Meerut CHILDLINE
- National Centre For Playwork Education - North East
- National Child Protection Authority
- National Information Centre on Human Rights
- New Life Foundation of Bangladesh
- NGO/UNICEF Regional Network for Children in Central and Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic States
- Nigeria Youth Foundation
- Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People
- Nukanti Foundation for Children
- ONG Espoir pour les enfants
- Organisation de Developpement et des Droits de l'Homme au Cameroun
- Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- Pan African Organisation for Research and Protection of Violence on Women and Children
- PAN AFRICAN YOUTH COUNCIL
- Parlement des Enfants de Cote d'Ivoire
- Parlement des enfants de Côte d'Ivoire section daloa
- Peacelinks
- People's Action in Development
- Philippine Resource Network on Child Protection
- Plan Republica Dominicana (PlanRD)
- Plan Tanzania
- Plan West Africa Regional Office
- Red Iberoamericana de Defensa de los Derechos de la Niñez y la Adolescencia
- Regional Working Group on Child Labour
- Reliable Future YO
- Relief Society of Tigray
- Save the Children - Norway
- Save the Children - UK
- Save the Children Norway
- Save the Children Norway - Nepal
- Save the Children Sweden
- Save the Children Sweden - Office for the Middle East and North Africa
- Save the Children Sweden - Pakistan programme
- Save the Children Sweden - Regional Office for Middle East and North Africa
- Save the Children Sweden - South Africa
- Save the Children Sweden Denmark - Bangladesh
- Save the Children Switzerland
- Save the Children UK
- Save the Children UK - DRC Office
- Save the Children UK - Sierra Leone Office
- Seyaj for Childhood Protection
- SILOE
- SIMA Community Based Organisation
- Society for Education and Development/Nepal
- Society for the Protection for the Rights of the Child
- Somali Child Protection and Development
- Somali Children Rights Organization
- SOS Enfants en Detresse
- Southern Africa Child Development Initiative (SA-child)
- Spanish Committee for UNICEF
- St Mary's Orphan Home
- Tanzania Child Rights Forum
- Tearfund
- Terre des Hommes - Germany
- The Ombudsperson for Children Republic of Croatia
- UNICEF
- UNICEF - Belgique
- UNICEF - Bhutan
- UNICEF - Cuba country office
- UNICEF - Gambia
- UNICEF - Georgia
- UNICEF - India
- UNICEF - Malaysia
- UNICEF - Papua New Guinea
- UNICEF - PNG
- UNICEF Brussels - EU Liaison Office
- UNICEF New Zealand
- UNICEF Office of Research
- UNICEF Podgorica
- UNICEF the Netherlands
- UNICEF Togo
- Viva
- Winrock International
- World Vision - Canada
- World Vision - Colombia
- World Vision - Japan
- World Vision International - International Liaison Office
- World Vision International - USA
- Young Women's Christian Association - Sierra Leone
- Youth Partnership for Peace and Development
Last updated 29/04/2003 10:57:52
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.
