Childwatch International – Key Institution Profiles

University of Santa Ursula Center for Research on Childhood (CESPI)

Universidade Santa Ursula
Rua Fernando Ferrari, 75
Sala 208 – P.VI
Cep 22231-040-Botafogo
Rio de Janeiro RJ
Brazil

Tel: +55 21 551 5542 ext. 181
Fax: +55 21 551 6446
E-mail: [email protected]

Web site: http://www.pitt.edu/~paect/cespi/

Irene Rizzini
Director

Bibliographic databases:
– Historical information on children in Brazil
– Child labour (Brazil)
– Street children (Latin America)
– Directory of organizations producing information on children
– The situation of the girl child and adolescent (Brazil)

Ongoing research:
– Children and poverty in Brazil
– Youth in conflict with the law
– Working children and adolescents in Brazil
– Linking research and social action: a manual for training NGO child educators
– Children out of place – historical perspectives
– From street children to all children
– Children in the history of Brazil (500 years)

Training
Courses on research at the University of Santa Ursula Department of Psychology
– courses on children’s rights
– trainee programmes for students at CESPI

Children’s Documentation Center
-Research and bibliographic orientation to users interested in children’s
issues

– National networks
– Databank of professionals
working with children
– Databank of research centres on children/youth
– Bibliographical databases on the history of children in Brazil
– Inter-American Children’s Institute, Uruguay