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Children's Rights

 

National Council of Women have produced a paper called "A Review of the Financial Support for New Zealand's Children" which calls for the Child Tax Credit to be extended to all children

ACYA - Action for Children and Youth Aotearoa

ACYA's main purpose is to promote the wellbeing of children and youth.
ACYA's main activities are:

Children's Agenda 2002: Ministry of Social Development. Includes Action Areas Update page.

The Children's Commissioner - Manaakitia A Tatou Tamariki


United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Stop Demand: a charity stopping child sex abuse, child sex trafficking

ECPAT (End Child Prostitution and Trafficking) New Zealand. Includes news, hotline reporting service,internet safety guides for parents and children, cyberkidz site.

1997 Report on New Zealand by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child - Action for Children in Aotearoa 1996. The non-governmental organisations report to the United Nations Committtee on the Rights of the Child. There are two reports:

CRIN child rights information network

Children's House

A very credible international site which includes floors on children's rights, children's views, children's research and a developing site on children's health, run by a coalition of expert groups involved in a wide range of children's issues.

CASE - ESRC Research Centre for Analysis

 The core research of CASE is divided between five inter-related strands: economic exclusion and income dynamics; social welfare institutions; family change and civil society; community, area polarisation and regeneration; and exclusion and society.