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Children's Rights
This section contains all Advocacy Forum members working on children's rights.
African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect Liberia Chapter (ANPPCAN Liberia)
Founded in 2001, the Liberia Chapter of the African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) seeks to enhance child rights protection through building the capacities of local communities, professional groups, and governments to protect their own children. ANPPCAN advocates for children's rights by convening and participating in national and regional forums. To achieve its goals ANPPCAN promotes education as a basic right and combats the worst forms of child labor. The chapter also works with communities to develop HIV/AIDS prevention strategies and to mobilize support for AIDS orphans.
Contact: A. Alvin Winford
P. O. Box 6794
Broad/Johnson Streets
Monrovia, Liberia
Telephone: +2316592905
Email: ANPPCAN Liberia
www.anppcan.org/chapters/liberia
Bawum Akone Association (BAWFA)
The Bawum Akone Association (BAWFA) works to restore health, hope and dignity to individuals, especially women, who suffer from poverty and violence in Cameroon. BAWFA focuses on the issues of children rights, discrimination, HIV/AIDS, human rights and poverty.
Contact: Nforsi Gabriel Neba,
Ntamafe 23
PO BOX 2173
Bafut, Cameroon
Phone: +0023777943181
Email BAWFA
Digital Development
Founded in 2006, Digital Development’s mission is to create a digital knowledge world where vulnerable and disadvantageous classes of society, especially socially excluded youth and young women, can participate and benefit. Digital Development uses technology to advocate on behalf of young people, to ensure that all people are treated equally and that their basic needs are met. Digital Development encourages youth, especially young women, to get involved in these activities and to use information and communication technology to promote equality and fight poverty. Digital Development raises awareness about the importance of taking advantage of new technologies as a tool for economic, political, and social development.
Contact: Konul Agayeva
1B/71, S.S. Axundov, AZ1116,
Baku, Azerbaijan
Tel: (+994 12) 408 1546
Email: mail@didev.org
URL: www.didev.org
Femmes Jurists Pour les Droits de la Femme et de l'Enfant (Female Lawyers for Women's and Children's Rights)
Femmes Juristes Pour les Droits de la Femme et de l’Enfant (FDJF) works to promote and defend women’s rights by helping women understand the laws that were created to protect them. In so doing, they hope to put an end to the suffering and marginalization of women in the society.
Contact: Catherine Kathungu Furaha
Ville de Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tel : ( 243) 099 77 60 899
Email FJDF
Lion Peace and Human Development (LPHD)
LPHD works to ensure the sustainable development of the Niger Delta on the community's own terms, to disengage youth from militancy and then rehabilitate them meaningfully and to ensure that government-allocated funds are appropriately used.
Contact: Smokey Gold,
11 Idiaregbe Street off Enughe Street
Okumagba Layout,
Warri - Delta State, Nigeria
Tel: +08033644202
Email LPHD
Ndola Nutrition Group
The Group aims to combat micro- and macro-malnutrition in children under five years of age, to treat HIV/AIDS patients and to foster sustainable economic empowerment at the household level for widows, single mother and female-child-headed homes.
Contact: Halumba Munachonga,
Plot 1346 Nkana Road
Opposite the Ndola Fire Brigade
P.O. Box 71470
Ndola, Zambia
Tel: +260-977-856-942
Email the Ndola Nutrition Group
Niger Delta Women's Movement for Peace & Development (NDWPD)
Niger Delta Women's Movement for Peace and Development (NDWPD) campaigns to improve girls' access to and level of education, to sensitize the community to female circumcision, to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission and to increase women's involvement in and impact on society.
Contact: Caroline Usikpedo, MCIA, B.Sc.,
28 N.D.C Road, Ozoro, Isoko North L.G.A.
Delta State, Nigeria
Tel: +234-8068107046/08076389834
Email NDWPD
The Palestinian Center for Communication and Development Studies
The Palestinian Center for Communication and Development Studies seeks to develop community by working with vulernable populations, specifically youth and women, to implement projects for enhance their role in the society.
Contact: Fida Abu Turky,
Tel/Fax: +(009722) 2299678
Mobile: +00972599694321/962462
Email the Palestinian Center for Communication and Development Studies
Protection of Orphans and Delinquent Children (PRODEC)
Founded in 2003, PRODEC strives to educate the public about children’s rights, protect children’s rights, and support the health, nutrition, and shelter of orphans. PRODEC’s mission is to assist orphans and vulnerable children, HIV/AIDS patients, cardiac patients, and widows in acquiring formal and informal education. PRODEC has projects in the areas of education, human rights, poverty, and health and strives to conduct sustainable projects which will continue to impact the community in the future.
Leonard Borfon Ayori
Cameroon - North West Region, Kumbo
Tel. 237 77215618
Email: PRODEC
Website: www.prodecorphans..org
Swat Youth Front
Swat Youth Front works with youth to fight gender disparities and inequalities and to promote the development of the disadvantaged communities of North West Frontier Province, Pakistan.
Contact: Amjad Ali,
Opposite G.P.S Haji Baba Mingora Swat
NWFP Pakistan 19130
Tel: +92-946-723388
Mobile: +92-345-9525666
Email Swat Youth Front
Sympathy, Treatment, Acceptance and Rehabilitation (STAR) Organization
Sympathy, Treatment, Acceptance, and Rehabilitation (STAR) Organization works toward a world in which everyone, especially disadvantaged women and orphaned children, enjoys equal rights.
Contact: Tasawar Younis Gill
St # 3 block "A" near Catholic Church
Barkat Pura, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Tel: +92-41-871-6372
Mobile: +92-345-768-4814
Email STAR
The Young Advocates for the Advancement of ICT-Related Development (YAAICT-D)
YAAICT-D seeks to shape the information society through the active participation of the youth who are key stakeholders in the current information revolution so that the benefits of information-based tools trickle down to the majority of Malawians.
Contact: Kenneth Msiska,
Cuckoos Nest House, off Mandala Rd, next to NBS Bank
Area 3, Box 607
Lilongwe, Malawi
Tel: +265 1 924 580
Fax: +265 1 757 360
Email YAAICT-D
Zimbabwe National Youth Symposium
The Zimbabwe National Youth Symposium is an organization striving for a just society in which the inherent dignity of the human person is respected and where liberty and freedom flourishes. The Symposium advocates for a democractic society that respects the human rights of all generations equally and that considers divergent views healthy and indispensable.
Contact: Pedius Sikisa,
No. 1 Duiker Crescent Borrowdale
Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel: +263 91 2 888 816/3 001 778
Email the Youth Symposium
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