Child Welfare 

• Child Welfare Information Gateway
  "Child Welfare Information Gateway connects child welfare and related professionals to comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. We feature the latest on topics from prevention to permanency, including child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption."
• Children's Defense Fund
  "We champion policies and programs that lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care, quality education and a moral and spiritual foundation."
• Children's Rights.org
  "We are a national advocacy group working to reform failing child welfare systems on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of abused and neglected children who depend on them for protection and care."
• Juvenile Law Center
  "A national nonprofit public interest law firm that advances and protects the rights and well-being of youth in the child welfare and justice systems by using legal advocacy, publications, projects, public education, and training to ensure those children receive the protection and services they need to become productive adults."
• Recognizing Child Abuse and Neglect
  "The first step in helping abused or neglected children is learning to recognize the signs of child abuse and neglect."
• UNICEF
  "We believe that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress. UNICEF was created with this purpose in mind – to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child’s path."
• UNICEF: Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse
  "Protecting children from violence, exploitation and abuse is an integral component of protecting their rights to survival, growth and development."
• Youth Advocate Program International
  "YAP International works to prevent and eliminate the worst forms of child labor, the use of children in armed conflict, commercial sexual exploitation of children, and the practice of incarcerating children as adults."

 Child Labor and Child Slavery 

• AntiSlavery Society: Child Labor
  AntiSlavery Society: Child Slaves of South Asia
  "Across the world, millions of children do extremely hazardous work in harmful conditions, putting their health, education, personal and social development, and even their lives at risk."
• Child Labor Coalition
  "A national network for the exchange of information about child labor; provide a forum and a unified voice on protecting working minors and ending child labor exploitation; and develop informational and educational outreach..."
• CRIN: Child Rights Information Network
  "Guided by our passion for social and legal change, CRIN is building a global network for children's rights. We press for rights, not charity, and advocate for a genuine systemic shift in how governments and societies view children."
• Global March Against Child Labour
  "A movement to mobilise worldwide efforts to protect and promote the rights of all children, especially the right to receive a free, meaningful education and to be free from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be harmful to the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development."
• U.S. Dept. of Labor: Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)
  OCFT's mission is to "perform public outreach by promoting the elimination of the worst forms of child labor, and increasing knowledge and information on child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking."

 Child Soldiers 

• Amnesty International: Child Soldiers
  "Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of children are recruited into government armed forces, paramilitaries, civil militia and a variety of other armed groups." Includes articles and personal stories.
• BBC: Children of Conflict
  "There are an estimated three hundred thousand child soldiers around the world. Every year the number grows as more children are recruited for use in active combat. Here you can listen to these children explain how they became soldiers, what stops them from leaving and how some have managed to build new lives for themselves."
• Child Solidiers International
  "Child Soldiers International works to prevent the recruitment and use of children as soldiers, to secure their demobilisation and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration."
• Human Rights Watch: Child Soldiers
  News, reports, and commentary about the plight of child soldiers.
• Invisible Children
  "We are story tellers. We make documentaries about war-affected children in east Africa and tour them around the world. ... With the support we receive from our tours and young supporters, we are able to implement cutting edge programs on the ground in Uganda." Program helps build schools, provide scholarships, make micro-loans for economic support, and build communications networks.
• IRIN: In-Depth: Child Soldiers
  2003 report on child soldiers.
• UNICEF: Child Combatant
  Links to UNICEF articles and reports about child soldiers.
• United Movement to End Child Soldiering
  "UMECS supports secondary school and higher education for children and youth affected by conflict together with school-based peace education and counseling and guidance programs, and helps to build a culture of peace to prevent new wars."
• Wikipedia: Military Use of Children
  Detailed article about military use of children in war, including as child soldiers.

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