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Child Rights Connect (formerly the NGO Group for the CRC)

Alternative name:

Child Rights Connect (formerly the NGO Group for the CRC)

Contact data:

1 rue Varembé
1202 Geneva
Switzerland
Tel: + 41 22 740 47 30
Fax: + 41 22 740 1145
Email: secretariat@childrightsnet.org
Website: www.childrightsnet.org

Year established:

1983 

No. Staff:

6

Main contact:

Lisa Myers (myers@childrightsconnect.org)

Membership No:

724

Network Membership:

NGO Group for the CRC

Organisation aims and activities: The NGO Group for the Convention on the
Rights of the Child (NGO Group) is a coalition
of international NGOs which work together to
facilitate the implementation of the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
It was originally formed in 1983 as the
Informal Ad Hoc NGO Group for the Drafting of
the Convention on the Rights of the Child.


Operational level: International


Works with age groups : Children 0 - 18


Organisation type: NGO network or group


Organisation mandate: Lobby governments and the United Nations


Areas of expertise: Armed conflict, Children and the media, Economic rights, Education and cultural rights, Gender and girls, Health and welfare, Implementation, Justice, Minority or indigenous children, Reporting to and monitoring the CRC, Sexual exploitation and abuse, Violence


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Last updated 03/06/2013 10:25:11

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