Network for Children's Rights

“Network for Children’s Rights” (NCR) is a non-profit organisation whose aim is to safeguard the rights of children as set out by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).

MISSION
Uphold and disseminate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

OBJECTIVES
- Inform children about the institutions that protect them at national, European and international level.
- Fight discrimination of any kind.
- Campaign for high quality education.
- Encourage minorities and socially excluded groups to demand access to education.
- Safeguard children from underage labour and exploitation in the workplace.
- Identify problems faced by children from vulnerable groups such as children of immigrants, refugees, repatriates, sick children and children in care or young offenders’ institutions.
- Increase public awareness about the right of every child to be protected against all forms of violence, insults, abandonment, neglect, abuse and exploitation.
- Disseminate information relating to the curtailment of smoking, alcohol consumption and drug abuse by children.
- Carry out research at local and regional level, gather facts and statistics about all matters relating to children’s rights.
- Collaborate with relevant institutions, international organisations and other NGOs in Greece and in Europe in order to find solutions to problems.