Useful Sites
United Nations:
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
www.un.org/womenwatch
Central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system.
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/
As of 1 January 2008, responsibility for servicing the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has been transferred to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm
Convention on the Rights of the Child
http://www.unicef.org/crc/
Updated information on the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Peace Institutes:
http://www.sipri.org/
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
http://www.prio.no/
Peace Research Institute Oslo
http://www.usip.org/
United States Institute of Peace
Children:
http://www.rootsofempathy.org/
Roots of Empathy
http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org
Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
Environment:
http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/
Text and activities of the Earth Charter Initiative