Getting involved
All of our programs are supported by the participation of members and funded by membership dues, publication sales and donations. If you are interested in the rights of children or of the same mind with us, anyone is eligible to be a member. Please join us!
Your participation is essential to strengthen our work.
Become a member:
Members will:
• Receive one copy of “ Harappa ” monthly
• Have a right to vote at the general assembly meetings
• Be able to buy discounted tickets for seminars
• Be able to join in theme-specific group meetings
• Be able to participate in our activities as a staff with the supplementary trainings.
Annual dues:
Individual: 10,000 yen
(Children under 18 years old: 2,000 yen)
Organization: 15,000 yen (with two copies of “ Harappa ” monthly)
(Organization formed by children: 4,000 yen)
Patron members:
Patron members will receive one copy of “ Harappa ” monthly
Annual dues:
Individual: 8,000 yen
Organization: 15,000 yen (with two copies of “ Harappa ” monthly)
(Organization formed by children: 4,000 yen)
(Anti-discrimination, Human Rights, Peace, Respect of Diversity)
Child Information and Research Center is a non-profit organization founded in 1977. We aim to promote and enlighten the various rights of children and to create an equal partnership between children and adults while encouraging networking among people involved in child issues.
We all have differences such as culture, sex, color of skin, religion, physical attribute and with or without disabilities. Thus, it should be natural for diverse people to live together in a society. Yet, those differences are not accepted and valued fully in the current society. As a result, indifference, prejudice, and oppression are still prevailing over the world in various forms. We are afraid that the age is one of those factors that lead to the discrimination.
Up to this time, children were considered immature and they were the target of being instructed and protected. But the Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by the UN in 1989 bans the discrimination towards children stating that they should be respected as an individual and as a citizen that constitutes a society, rather than solely given protection.
We strive to work together with children to construct the society where everyone accepts each other's differences.
“In partnership with children”