Amnesty International campaigns for human rights worldwide and has a number of children's rights campaigns.

Save the Children Fund (SCF) champions the rights of children globally, and campaigns actively for the end of child soliders.

The United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) works internationally for the protection of children's rights and their basic needs.

PLAN International uses child sponsorship as a way of funding projects to helps communities improve the health, education, environment, economic stability and thus the future of their children.

Casa-Alianza works with street children in central America.

ADPP Relief Aid run the 'children's town', near Maputo Mozambique which rehabilitates former street children and prostitutes.

The Rugmark Fundation - USA
is working in India, Nepal and Pakistan to eradicate child labor and supports education programs for former child workers.

The Slave Children
Correspondent, BBC 2, Sunday 7th October 2001.
Correspondent goes to Africa to investigate the modern trade in child slaves which robs them of their childhood.

child soldiers
Rebuilding Hope (Reconstruindo a Esperanca) is an Mozambican NGO rehabilitating child soldiers in Maputo.

The Marka Militia Rehabilitation Centre, in Somalia where Abdi is being helped, is funded by the EU and run by IIDA.

The Geneva based
World Council of Churches has called on its members to oppose the use of children as soldiers.

The US-based NGO
Human Rights Watch is campaigning to stop the use of children as soldiers.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) uses mainly medical personnel to help victims of armed conflict.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an independent organisation which provides assistance to the vicitms of war across the world.

The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) offers asistance in Kosovo and post-conflict areas such as Chechyna.

Dr Kueri Idrissov, who is helping the children in Chechnya, is a vounteer with the international arm of Doctors of the World.

lost children
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is offering assistance to refugees in Kosovo and has a special how to help site.

The Disasters Emergency Committee is a UK alliance of NGOS raising money for refugees from Kosovo.

The United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCAH) is co-ordinating relief efforts in Kosovo, Angola and Sierra Leone.

Save the Children Fund (SCF) works in partnership with the Association in Search of Disappeared Children in El Salvador, supports family tracing in Luanda and has projects in Liberia and Rwanda.

Oxfam International runs projects in Rwanda and El Salvador helping to rebuild communities and the UK-based, Oxfam is running a 'Cut Conflict Campaign' which promotes the rights of refugees.