Save the Children International is the world’s largest independent global movement for children. It fights for children’s rights and delivers immediate and lasting improvements to children’s lives worldwide.
EURONET - The European Children's Network is a coalition of networks and organisations campaigning for the interests and rights of children (defined in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as all persons under 18 years of age). They share a common concern that children as a group are 'invisible' within the European Union and that the EU develops legislation, policy, and programmes without taking sufficient - or in many cases any - account of children's rights or interests. SOS Children's Villages (SOS Kinderdorf International) revolves around the effort to give children who have lost their parents or who are no longer able to live with them a permanent home and a stable environment. The SOS Children's Village family-like structure is formed by four basic principles: mother, brothers and sisters, house and village. The International Forum for Child Welfare (IFCW) is an international non-governmental organisation in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The International Federation Terre des Hommes is a network of eleven national organisations working for the rights of children and to promote equitable development without racial, religious, political, cultural or gender-based discrimination. Children Are the Future (CAF) is a Brussels based organisation. It was established with the aim to promote human rights with specific attention to children and the ‘Convention on the rights of the child’. CAF seeks to improve the health and education of children in impoverished communities, in ways that respect the environment, through sustainable projects identified as priorities by local children, parents and community members. The European Foundation for Street Children Worldwide (EFSCW) is a Brussels-based foundation committed on a non-profit basis to the improvement of the rights and situations of children at risk and particularly street children. As a platform for lobbying and advocacy towards the European Union, it provides non-governmental organisations committed to this cause with information and advice concerning all children and youth-related policies and assistance programmes of the EU and facilitates the exchange of best practice between them. The Institut International des Droits de l’Enfant (IDE) was created by the International Association of Magistrates for Youth and Family (IAMYF) and the University Institute Kurt Bösch in Sion (IUKB). It is supported by a the Foundation of the International Institute for the Rights of the Child and is counselled by a scientific council composed of 10 people. It is apolitical and A-denominational. |
