• Knowledge Base
  • Library and database
  • Capacity building
  • Research projects
• Black on White Publications
  • Issues
  • Essentials
    • Readings
    • Tools
    • Authors
  • Young Masters Series
  • Presentations
  • Occasionally Black on White
• Priorities in the human rights of children
  • Children’s citizenship
  • Children with disabilities
  • Economic exploitation of children
  • Spirit of peace

has a hard-copy archive of books, articles, reports and unpublished materials, dating back to 1979, relating to most countries in the world and covering many aspects of childhood, in particular:

Child abuse
Children’s participation and citizenship
Children’s spirituality
Commercial sexual exploitation of children
Research with children
Street and working children
The human rights of children
The new sociology of childhood
Violence against children

The archive is being constantly updated on these issues and to increase information on:

Children with disabilities
‘Spirit of peace’ (Convention on the Rights of the Child article 29)

Library

This collection is currently being organized as a library in Central Bangkok (Thailand). Personal visitors can make arrangements to visit the collection for private study by telephoning +66 8600 55983.

In the future this library will also be a resource available to participants in Knowing Children capacity-building activities

Data base

Knowing children ’s current three-year plan includes transforming the material in the library collection into a searchable, online data base, using an established computer programme, so that the information will be accessible to researchers from any part of the world

The initial pilot project will cover material currently in the archive for the Mekong Delta region (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam). Work will begin on this project in 2007.

Funds are actively being sought to develop both these concepts.