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This is a list of children's rights organizations by country. Organisations. Country Name Notes Asia: Child Workers in Asia Australia: ChilOut Belgium:
Children's rights organizations in the United States (27 P) Pages in category "Children's rights organizations" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
Pages in category "Children's rights organizations in the United States" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Marian Wright Edelman founds the Children's Defense Fund, a leading national organization that lobbies for children's rights and welfare. 1973 Hillary Clinton: In a report examining the status of children's rights in the United States, Hillary Clinton, then a lawyer, wrote that "children's rights" was a "slogan in need of a definition." [23 ...
In the following years (1996-1997) the first big steps were taken as an organization. Newsletters were published, a website was made, CRIN published the directory of Child Rights Organizations. [7] The Child Rights International Network now includes over 1200 organizations and is a viable information resource for the public. [8]
There is a long history of children's rights in the U.S. Many children's rights advocates in the U.S. today advocate for a smaller agenda than their international peers. According to the U.S, for the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child ...
Women's rights organizations based in the United States (1 C, 24 P) Pages in category "Human rights organizations based in the United States" The following 170 pages are in this category, out of 170 total.
Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. [1] The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier."