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Posted: 8:35 3/22/08 by webmaster

GetNetWise - Offers a free Webinar Series that provides parents an in- depth look at many of the Kids Safety Tools available to them. The Webinars explain everything from installing parental control tools to how to manage the settings and preferences to fit your family's needs. http://kids.getnetwise.org/tools/webinars/

Take Parental Control - A guide for parents on how to restrict or block inappropriate content on the Internet, on TV, in videogames, on cell phones and more. http://www.takeparental-control.org

 

StaySafe.org - An educational site intended to help consumers understand both the positive aspects of the Internet as well as how to manage a variety of safety and security issues that exist online. http://www.staysafe.org

 

Parental Control Toolbar - The ParentalControl Bar is a free public service that helps concerned parents prevent their children from accessing adult-oriented websites. http://parentalcontrolbar.org

 

SurfSafely.com - A comprehensive Internet safety portal presenting breaking news, product reviews, forum discussions, public event listings, free newsletter subscriptions and the world's largest Family Friendly Web directory of voluntarily labeled online content. http://www.SurfSafely.com

 

Family Online Safety Institute - An international, independent organization that empowers the public, especially parents, to make informed decisions about electronic media by means of the open and objective labeling of content. http://www.fosi.org/resources/parents

 

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - A Parent`s Guide to Internet Safety http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm

 

The NetSmartz Workshop - is an interactive, educational safety resource for children aged 5 to 17, parents, guardians, and educators to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet. http://www.netsmartz.org

 

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - Know the Rules... General Parental Tips to Help Keep Your Children Safer. http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/ResourceServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=889

 

wiredsafety.org - How children use the Internet and how to help them have a safer and more enjoyable surfing experience. ttp://www.wiredsafety.org/parent.html

 

Australian National Child Protection Clearing House. This is a network of people and publications including newsletters, issues and discussion papers and bibliographies, a listing of organizations around the world and a searchable database of prevention programs. www.aifs.org.au/external/nch/nch_menu

 

Casa Alianza. This non-governmental organization is dedicated to the rehabilitation and defence of street children in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The Regional Office for Latin America is in San Jose, Costa Rica. Casa Alianza monitors and cares for 9,000 street children each year, most of whom have been orphaned by civil war, abused or rejected by their families, and who as a result are begging, stealing or selling themselves for a hot meal, a shower, a clean bed. They have actively militated for justice even against threats to their own personnel. Casa Alianza contributed to arranging for a two week inspection visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography to Guatemala in 1999. Casa Alianza was awarded the Conrad Hilton Humanitarian prize - the world's largest humanitarian prize - in 2000. The agency was also awarded the Olof Palme Peace Prize by the people of Sweden in 1996. www.casa-alianza.org

 

Center for Media EducationChildnet InternationalThis NGO networks with child welfare and educational groups, governments and international agencies to provide information on how children can benefit from and be protected in using international communications systems like the Internet. "On this site you can find out how we are developing projects which promote the new media to children and widen access to those who are marginalized, as well as see how we are working at the strategic level on initiatives which protect children in the use of new technologies." www.childnet-int.org

 

Childnet International hotlines Internet Hotline Providers in Europe (INHOPE) Forum is a project initially funded under the European Commission Daphne programme to bring together the main hotlines/tiplines in Europe that deal with child pornography and other illegal material on the Internet. The Forum is serviced by Childnet International - see site on: www.childnet-int.org/hotlines

The forum plans to become a more formal Association and its new website will be at www.inhope.org

 

Children@Risk At the first World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation

of Children in Stockholm, August 1996, Redd Barna (Save The Children Norway) in co-operation with the Norwegian Ombudsman for Children, presented the international initiative "children@risk" to fight child

pornography on the Internet. A campaign site against child pornography on the Internet, produced by Redd Barna, the Norwegian Section of International Save the Children Alliance. childhouse.uio.no/workshops

 

Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties. This is an extensive site dealing with the regulation of child pornography on the Internet. Monitors mainly UK cases. Also many links to other sites dedicated to fighting child porn on the internet. www.leeds.ac.uk/law/pgs/yaman/child.htm

 

Defence for Children international. DCI is an independent non-governmental organization set up during the International Year of the Child (1979) to ensure on-going, practical, systematic and concerted international action specially directed towards promoting and protecting the rights of the child. The organization's aims are: to foster awareness about, and solidarity around, children's rights situations, issues and initiatives throughout the world; to seek, promote and implement the most effective means of securing the protection of the rights in concrete situations, from both a preventive and curative standpoint. DCI has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and social Council, with UNICEF and the Council of Europe. www.childhub.ch/webpub/dcihome/

 

ECPAT International (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes). ECPAT works on political action, law-making and law enforcement, awareness-raising in the tourist industry, education and media coverage. ECPAT started as a campaign against child prostitution in Asian tourism, but since the World Congress against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children has been combating commercial sexual exploitation of children on a worldwide basis. ECPAT has national groups and affiliates in 50 countries. A clippings service is available on the website. www.ecpat.net

 

The Focal Point Against Sexual Exploitation of Children
This is the programme of the NGO group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It was created to facilitate exchanges and collaborative activities among a broad Support Group made up of IGOs, NGOs and individual experts and plays a leading role in monitoring at international level the issues of sexual exploitation, abuse and violence where children and youth are victims. The group dealing with these issues has contributed to the development of the relevant articles of the Convention dealing with the subject and to the drafting of a UN Programme of Action on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. It participates in discussions dealing with a draft optional protocol to the CRC on the same issues. It has made an input in the preparation of the new ILO convention on the worst forms of child labour which covers trafficking, child prostitution and child pornography. This site provides background information, policy papers on these themes, research and studies that can be downloaded and a regular newsletter including a calendar of events. www.childhub.ch/dcifp/focalpoint.html

 

Internet Content Rating for Europe
INCORE is a group of European organizations having a common interest in industry self-regulation and rating of Internet content is now focused on a project which aims to create a generic rating and filtering system suitable for European users. This is being funded by the European Commission in 1999. Their site contains information about their work, coming events, and provides documents and news reports. www.incore.org

 

News Agency for Children's Rights
ANDI is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to contribute for raising awareness, within the media, towards the promotion and defence of children's and adolescents' rights, considering that the democratization of their access to basic social rights is a fundamental condition for social equity. Most items are in Portuguese. http:/www.andi.org.br

 

EurochildThe mission of the Centre for Europe's Children is to provide information for policy makers, academics and experts responsible for child related activities. It is an important online resource for information on children in Europe and has a large section on Child Protection.eurochild.gla.ac.uk

 

The European Forum for Child Welfare
EFCW is a network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) concerned with child welfare across Europe. EFCW is itself part of a wider network, the International Forum for Child Welfare. EFCW welcomes members from all European Countries. To-date, members come from 20 countries, including Central and Eastern Europe. The Forum aims to service its member and to enable them to provide high quality practice for children throughout Europe. In addition, it aims to raise the profile of child welfare with the European Institutions. Texts in English and French. www.efcw.org

 

Movement Against Paedophilia on Internet MAPI is a research group working on paedophilia and child pornography on the Internet. MAPI's objectives are to promote interdisciplinary research on the field, inform the users of the Internet and be available for the Internet Providers concerning advice and recommendations. www.info.fundp.ac.be/~mapi/plan.html

will show the complete MAPI report on paedophilia on the internet.

General site is located at: www.info.fundp.ac.be/~mapi/mapi-fr.html

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Action for Children (UK)
This site seeks to improve the lives of Britain's most vulnerable children and young people by providing a diverse and innovative range of services for them and their families and campaigning on their behalf. I include guides for parents as well as information on various initiatives to provide a watch on the internet. www.nchafc.org.uk/home.html

 

A Parent's Guide to the Internet
This book is online for free. The author, Parry Aftab

is a cyberspace lawyer and child safety advocate. This site is devoted to teaching online safety to parents, children and teachers. Ms. Aftab has developed programmes to go into schools and teach parents and

children about online safety and how paedophiles get past out children's "stranger danger" defenses. Her new book, The Parents Guide to Protecting Children in Cyberspace will be released in October, 1999 (Mc-Graw-Hill) and the royalties earned will benefit child online safety programs. www.familyguidebook.com

 

People’s Recovery, Empowerment and Development Assistance Foundation
The PREDA Foundation is a small but pro-active, charitable, not-for-profit organization working on a national and international level for Human Rights, especially Women's and Children's Rights. "We run a residential therapeutic community for abused and exploited children, with therapy and discrimination and racism. PREDA campaigns against child labor, the sexual exploitation of children, and seeks to educate about AIDS." There is a full archive for documentation, information and news campaigns. PREDA has also been instrumental in new legislation concerning conviction of paedophiles and child abusers. www.preda.org

 

Redd Barna The Norwegian office of 'Save the children', is an international organization that handles all major activities in favour of children. This work includes referring child pornography cases to the Norwegian Police and to see that each case is handled by the appropriate national or international agency. For Norway: childhouse.uio.no/redd_barna

 

For Sweden, which also contains material bout the World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1996: www.rb.se/engindex.htm

 

Safe Use of the Internet
This website is part of a unique research project of the European Union, Pilot Awareness Project, to assess how best to encourage the safe use of the Internet by children across Europe. www.netaware.org

 

Virlanie Foundation
Established in 1988, this organization is working with street children and young prostitutes in Manila, Philippines, giving them a shelter, food, education and love. Virlanie thus welcomes abandoned children, street beggars, young prostitutes, physically and emotionally

battered children, mentally handicapped children, and victims of incest. Site is presented in English and French. www.vasia.com/virlanie/indexf.htm

 

Young Media Australia
This site provides learning guides for parents, cybersafety tips, is now available as part of a hands-on special pilot project called the Parents' Internet Resource Centre. It is funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. Site provides easy introductions to basic concepts of the Internet and special courses for parents. www.wiredkids.org

 

Wired News is a news service specializing in latest information on Internet, informatics, and generally any subject that relates back to informatics and telematics. www.wired.com/news/news/

 

Yahooligans
This site, a youth oriented version of the better known search engine, Yahoo, provides simplified ways for young people to search sites on subject of interest to them, notably sports, music entertainment, arts, science and nature, math, computers and games. www.yahooligans.com