Organisation aims and activities: CO-OPERAID is a Swiss NGO supporting projects in the fields of education and vocational training since 1981. The target groups are children, youth and women. They include refugee children, landmine victims, ethnic minorities, the disabled, nomadic communities, AIDS and war orphans.
Operational level: International
Works with age groups : Children 0 - 18
Organisation type: NGO - non governmental organisation
Organisation mandate: Work in partnership with organisations
Areas of expertise: Armed conflict, Children living with HIV/AIDS, Children with disabilities, Education and cultural rights, Family and alternative care, Sexual exploitation and abuse
Countries in which this organisation works: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Djibouti, Kenya, Philippines, Thailand, Uganda
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
- 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 Council of Churches
- World Health Organisation
- World Organisation of the Scout Movement
- World Vision International - International Liaison Office
Organisations working in similar fields:
- A.C.O.P.O CONCEPTS
- Afghanistan Independent Human Right Commission
- Africa - Wide Movement for Children
- African Commission on Human and People's Rights
- AKSHAYA Rehabilitation Trust
- Alliance for Childhood
- Anita Home
- Arab Institute for Human Rights
- Artists United 4 Childrewn and Youth Development (AUCAYD)
- Associação Brasileira de Magistrados, Promotores de Justiça e Defensores Públicos da Infância e Juventude
- 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
- Bureau international catholique de l'enfance
- Bureau international catholique de l'enfance - France
- Canadian International Development Agency
- 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
- Child Helpline Cameroon
- Child Rights Brigade International
- Child Rights Information and Documentation Centre
- Child Rights International Network
- ChildFund Ireland
- Children and Women Empowerment Society
- Children Center International Liberia
- Children Concern Organisation
- Children First - Pakistan
- Children of the Andes
- Children Today Centre
- Children's association of Armenia
- Children's International Summer Villages Côte d'Ivoire
- Children's Law Centre
- Children's Rights Project, Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape
- Christian Children's Fund - Geneva Office
- Community Children Organisation (COCO)
- Consortium for Street Children
- Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development
- Defence for Children International
- Defensores PROCDN
- Department of Social Welfare - Gambia
- Development Without Borders Institution DWBI (Iraq)
- 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
- Fundacion Rafael Pombo
- Fuuvi ou Enfants des parents du monde
- Generosity International Lifecare Development Coalition
- Genuine Empowerment of Mothers in Society
- Ghana NGO Coalition on the Rights of the Child
- Global March South Asian Secretariat/CWIN Nepal
- Glorious Future Academy
- Good Neighbours Care
- Grupo Iniciativa Nacional por los Derechos del Niño, GIN-PERU
- HAQ: Centre for Child Rights
- Hellenic Association Of Poltical Scientists
- Homeland Community Development Agency
- Hope for Children, Sri Lanka
- Human Rights - First the Child
- Integrated Regional Information Networks - IRIN
- International Centre for Child and Youth Studies
- Jammu and Kashmir Child Rights Trust
- Joy for Children - Uganda
- Jubilee Action - UK
- Justice for Children, Uganda
- Kindernothilfe
- Kindernothilfe (Africa Representation Office)
- Kinderombudsman
- Kinderrechte Afrika e.V. (KiRA)
- Maison des Droits de l'Enfant
- Manav Kalyan Sansthan
- Materi Chechni
- Meerut CHILDLINE
- National Centre for Human Rights
- National Centre For Playwork Education - North East
- National Information Centre on Human Rights
- NGO/UNICEF Regional Network for Children in Central and Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic States
- Nib Women and Children Association
- Nigeria Youth Foundation
- Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People
- Nucleus
- NUR Usaq ve Genclerin Ictimai Birliyi
- Office of the Children's Advocate - Jamaica
- ONG Espoir pour les enfants
- Organisation de Developpement et des Droits de l'Homme au Cameroun
- Padang Lutheran Christian Relief
- Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- Pan African Organisation for Research and Protection of Violence on Women and Children
- Parlement des Enfants de Cote d'Ivoire
- Parlement des enfants de Côte d'Ivoire section daloa
- People's Action in Development
- Philippine Resource Network on Child Protection
- Plan Tanzania
- Red Iberoamericana de Defensa de los Derechos de la Niñez y la Adolescencia
- Regional Working Group on Child Labour
- Relief Society of Tigray
- Save Congo's Child
- Save the Children - Norway
- Save the Children Canada
- Save the Children Sweden - Office for the Middle East and North Africa
- Save the Children Sweden - Pakistan programme
- Save the Children Sweden - South Africa
- Save the Children Sweden - Thailand
- Save the Children Sweden Denmark - Bangladesh
- Save the Children Switzerland
- Save the Children UK
- Save the Children UK - Sierra Leone Office
- Seyaj for Childhood Protection
- Shape Lives Foundation
- Sierra Leone-Canadian Children's Aid Society
- SIMA Community Based Organisation
- Society for Education and Development/Nepal
- Society for the Protection for the Rights of the Child
- Somali Children Rights Organization
- Southern Africa Child Development Initiative (SA-child)
- Spanish Committee for UNICEF
- St Mary's Orphan Home
- Terre des Hommes - Germany
- Terre des Hommes - Spain
- Terre des hommes Italia
- The "Future is yours" NGO
- The Ombudsperson for Children Republic of Croatia
- UNICEF
- UNICEF - Belgique
- UNICEF - Belgrade
- UNICEF - Bhutan
- UNICEF - Cambodia
- UNICEF - Cuba country office
- UNICEF - Ethiopia
- UNICEF - Georgia
- UNICEF - India
- UNICEF - Malaysia
- UNICEF - Papua New Guinea
- UNICEF - PNG
- UNICEF Brussels - EU Liaison Office
- UNICEF Pacific
- UNICEF Podgorica
- UNICEF Togo
- Viva
- World Vision - Japan
- World Vision International - International Liaison Office
- Youth Partnership for Peace and Development
Last updated 17/08/2005 10:52:18
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