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Child Rights Information Network Newsletter, 1997. INSTITUTION Child Rights Information Network, London (England) DOCUMENT RESUME ED 424 962 PS 027 094 AUTHOR Purbrick, Becky, Ed. TITLE Child Rights Information Network Newsletter, 1997. INSTITUTION Child Rights Information Network, London (England). PUB DATE 1997-00-00 NOTE 49p.; For 1996 Newsletter, see ED 417 854. AVAILABLE FROM CRIN (Child Rights Information Network Newsletter), c/o Save the Children, 17 Grove Lane, London SE5 8RD, England, United Kingdom; phone: 44-171-703-5400; fax: 44-171-793-9730; e-mail: [email protected] PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Child Rights Information Network Newsletter; n3-5 Jan-Oct 1997 EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Child Labor; Child Welfare; *Children; *Childrens Rights; Foreign Countries; Information Sources; Newsletters; Organizations (Groups) ;Program Descriptions; Sexual Abuse; *Well Being IDENTIFIERS *Child Rights Information Network ABSTRACT These three newsletter issues communicate activities of the Child Rights Information,Network (CRIN) and report on information resources and worldwide activities concerning children and child rights. The January 1997 issue profiles CRIN members in Costa Rica, Tanzania, Germany, and Switzerland; and provides updates on the activities of projects linked to CRIN, including the CRIN organizations database and the International Resource Centre on the Protection of Children in Adoption. The June 1997 issue profiles CRIN members in Canada, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, and Thailand; updates CRIN-linked activities of the Task Force on National Coalitions, the International Juvenile Justice Network, and UNESCO; and introduces "virtual desks," small groups of organizations that identify information on themes to be shared with CRIN members, such as child labor and commercial sexual exploitation. The October 1997 issue profiles CRIN members in Bangladesh, Senegal, Costa Rica, and the United States; includes updates of activities of the Task Force on National Coalitions and the CRIN Web Site Directory; and discusses the information available on the organization's Web site related to child labor and sexual exploitation. Each issue also contains an annotated bibliography of publications on children's rights and provides information on forthcoming meetings related to children's rights. (KB) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** CRIN Newsletter CHILD RIGHTS INFORMATION NETWORK U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OIOoOO Ensarmna Flossaran ans InOnavrnen. EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) )(This dOmmont °as bean raproducedas received from the damn or organizatiott originating it. 0 Minor ~pas have bean mad.to 0.000. wowed.' 00+000 Contents Po.r. or o,00 Or °Pinionsstated in this document do not nscessanly MAMMA offictal OERI position oe penny What is CRIN? :.. News from the Coordinator and Facilitating CRIN iS a global network of children's rights Group 2 organisations supporting information A week with CRIN 3 exchange concerning children and their Profdes of CRIN members: rights.It is managed by nine international Casa Alianza, Costa Rica 3 organisations, known as the Facilitating Kuleana Centre for Children's Rights, Tanzania 4 Group and a small Coordinating Unit is based terre des hommes, Germany 5 at Save the Children (UK). NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its subgroups, Geneva 5 CR1N is open to individuals, non- Project updates: governmental organisations, UN agencies and Organisations Database 11 educational institutions who are involved in Internet: Home at last 12 children's rights, committed to the UN CRIN keen to get into training 13 Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Database on Protection of Children in Respect Convention or CRC) and to sharing of Adoption, International Social Services 13 information with others. The network has New publications on children's rights 14 three main aims met through specific project Forthcoming meetings on children's rights 15 activities and an inforMation service. CRIN's membership form 16 The network exists to: Support and promote the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Editors Child; Becky Purbrick & Karen Hooper Help to meet the information needs of Organisations and individuals working with Contributors and for children's rights; and Jasmina Grdanicki, Children's Right's Centre, Support organisation's to gather, handle, Belgrade, Bruce Harris, Casa Alizana, Costa Rica, produce and disseminate child rights Cornelia Dernbach, terre des hommes, Germany, information through training, capacity Laura Theytaz Bergman, Alfhild Pdtren, Anna building and the development of electronic Grauers, Rachel Brett, Hélèn Sackstein, for the and non-electronic networking tools. NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its subgroups, Geneva, Chantal Saclier, If you want to join themetwork, find out more International Social Service, Geneva and other about CRIN or request information on CRIN members. children's rights issues, please fill in the form on the back page or contact the Coordinator, CR1N's Facilitaing Group Members Becky Purbrick, Defence for Children International, International CIO Save the Children, 17 Grove Lane, Secretriat, International Child Development Centre, London SE5 8RD, UK (UNICEF), International Centre for Childhood and Tel +44 171 703 5400 Family, International Save the Children Alliance, Fax +44 171 793 7630 NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Email [email protected] Child, Rädda Barnen, Save the Children, UNICEF PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND & UN Centre for Human Rights. DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY BEST COPY AVAILABLE PN,QC(C.\ 2 Child Rights Information Network Newsletter 1 TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Number 3 January 1997 We know that our success in 1997 News from the coordinator depends on the commitment and motivation of the membership. So I It is encouraging to see the networkFacilitating Group. This year, urge you all to use CRIN, tell us growing by the day. We now have we hope to expand our funding what you want, and contribute to the more than 250 members in over 30 base within the Save the network by providing information for countries and more than 800 Children Alliance, other our newsletter, the organisations contacts in 100 countries. As most international organisations such database, our Web page and mailing of our members are based in as terre des hommes and box. With all of our commitments we Western Europe, with Asia and the corporate donors such as IBM. can build a rich resource on Americas following closely behind Your ideas and support are children's rights. a plea goes out to our friends in always welcomed. Becky Purbrick, Central and Eastern Europe, the CRIN Coordinator Arabic countries and Africa to sign up as soon as possible. Our database, with your help, has the potential to be the most comprehensive directory of children's rights organisations - please send in those questionnaires so we can build on our 150 completed entries. Plans are underway to have the database Jack Glattbach raised the most housed in Uruguay, Kenya, Cyprus salient point at our October and India (see project update). The meeting when he said that 1996 Research on the Reporting database is also available from had been the year for building process to the Committe on CRIN's new home page on the the "architecture of the the Rights of the Child for internet http://childhub.ch/webpub/ network". We'd been increasing Save the Children (UK) crhome - why not have a look. membership, getting to grips with management meetings, The aim of this research is to We are also publishing in the designing the database, identify examples of good Internet Site "Children's House" producing this newsletter and practice to inform a set of and have collaborated with the raising funds. In 1997, he said, recommendations for State International Secretariat and the we should be "putting flesh on Parties. Netherlands section of Defence for the bones" - moving information Children International to publish around the network, publishing ..1 am intending to send out a brief their kit on children's rights on the Internet and using CRIN's questionnaire to a number of international standards in the tools. NGOs and governments. If your Children's Rights Room. More feel the reporting process in your about this, CRIN's new electronic Once again we invited country was particularly mailing list and some interesting Butterflies, African Network for noteworthy in any Way, and news on training can be found Protection and Prevention against would be willing to reSpond to the elsewhere in this newsletter. Child Abuse and Neglect, Arab quesionnarie - either in writing or Resource Collective and over the phone - I would be very All our achievements could not Interamericano Instituto del Nifio interested to hear from you. have been possible without funding to join the meeting, hosted by the and thanks go to Rädda Barnen, International Child Development Please contact: : Redd Barna, Save the Children Centre in Florence. We had a Sandy Ruxton (UK), Save the Children Japan, the packed agenda, covering issues 78 Courtland Road British Overseas Development from membership to funding. Rose Hill, Oxford Administration and UNICEF and OX4 4HX of course the contributions of the UK Tel & Fax +44 1865 779669 2 conferences and round tables.
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