Links related to "Women and children"
Project Ploughshares
Project Ploughshares is an agency of the Canadian Council of Churches and provides expertise and analysis to the Council and its members on peace and security issues.
Coalition to stop the use fo Child Soldiers
Organisation campaigning to stop the use of child soldiers.
The United Nations
United Nations website, Peace and Security section. Includes information on the structure and purpose of bodies such as the General Assembly and the Security Council.
United Nations Childrens Fund
Information on the status of children in areas of armed conflict.
United Development Fund for Women
UNIFEMi is the women's fund at the United Nations. The organisation assists programs and research into gender equity and women's empowerment. Information on peace, security and women.
Womens International League for Peace and Freedom
Information on the effects of conflict on women.
WomenWarPeace
Women, War and Peace is the web portal from UNIFEMi on women, peace and security:
International Committee of the Red Cross:
The ICRC responds to the needs of people affected by armed conflict. The site provides good information on specific geographical areas of current conflicts.
The Center for Defense Information
Data, videos, programs and papers on America's defense spending and monitoring.
Amnesty International
Amnesty's struggle for implementation of universal human rights includes camaigns for control of the arms trade, and for human rights in war. Their international site includes links to Australian and other local campaigns.
Reaching Critical Will
Reaching Critical Will is a WILPFi project aiming to increase effective participation of civil society at international disarmament fora. WILPF believes that nuclear disarmament needs sustained effort by governments, non-governmental organizations and the UNi. Reaching Critical Will presents disarmament information in plain English.
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs
Information concerning conventional weapons, weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons, UNi treaties restricting their use, and the human costs of war, can be found on this UN site.


