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Organizations
Community Book Connection Pamphlet with college resources and organizations contacts and web sites connected to concerns raised in this book. Few list of resources: Counseling Services, Psychological Concerns,Post-traumatic stress, Victims of crimes and violence, family crisis services, grief counseling, loss of newborn, illness and health-related issues, addictions, and support group of people affected by addictions of others
Children and War Organizations:
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers The Coalition promotes the adoption and implementation of international legal standards protecting children from recruitment or use as soldiers. It works to prevent the recruitment and use of children as soldiers, to secure their demobilization and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration into society.
Children Associated with the War (CAW) A 2007 report of children associated with the war from the (DACO)the Developmental Assistance Office of Sierra Leone.
Child Soldier Relief Supporting former child soldiers worldwide
Child Soldiers Initiative is working to build the political will now needed to properly enforce laws that protect children and bring perpetrators to justice and to render it ineffective to use Child Soldiers. The Child Soldiers Initiative (CSI) is a project that Romeo Dallaire leads, in partnership with Search for Common Ground, the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, the University of Victoria and the University of Winnipeg, and in association with UNICEF Canada, Ishmael Beah, The Centre for Foreign Policy Studies (CFPS) at Dalhousie University and War Child Canada.
ACOKE RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE A war-recovery initiative by young people in Lira, northern Uganda.
Other Human Rights Organizations Helping Children:
Human Rights Watch: Children’s Rights Division Advisory Committee is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.
UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. We have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality.
Save the Children Organization Creating a lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the world.
Amnesty International U.S.A. Action for human rights in the U.S.A.
- American Red Cross Exploring Humanitarian Law - Exploring Humanitarian Law curriculum gives teachers easy-to-use materials to help students understand the rules governing war and their impact on human life and dignity.
