What we do

International Child Campaign promotes human rights and in particular the rights, welfare and education of children throughout the world to help break the cycle of suffering, poverty, injustice and violent conflict.

• Advocating for the adoption of, and compliance with, international and regional codes of human rights, in particular the rights of children, by those in positions of duty.
• Monitoring and reporting on the developments and abuses of human rights, in particular the rights of children, whether those obligations arise under a country’s domestic legislation or international standards.
• Facilitating debate and discussion among individuals, corporations and other organisations to promote active support for human rights, in particular the rights of children.
• Acquiring and passing on knowledge about human rights law, how it is developing, how it is being administered and applied, and how to campaign and advocate for positive change.
• Carrying out research into human rights, in particular the rights of children, to add usefully to the store of human knowledge.

The REPLACE campaign is aimed at improving the lives of orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children by advocating for the replacement of institutional care with family-based care. Placing children into suitable families is better than placing children in orphanages (even into well-run, safe orphanages) and supporting strong local social services (family support and education) is key to preventing them being institutionalised in the first place.

The INSPIRE campaign seeks to strengthen support for teachers. While it is important to meet the Millennium Goal Two of providing a school place for every child, it is critical to take that goal to the next step and provide good, effective, inspired teaching in every classroom. A classroom, without an inspired teacher, is not an education.