For children, their rights and equitable development
©Terre des Hommes Foundation Lausanne 28 April 2015 – Terre des Hommes has been mobilizing its teams in Nepal immediately after the earthquake. Together with our Nepalese NGO partners, we are providing immediate relief to the population, first aid kits and non-food items, water, hygienic kits, health care and immediate measures of child protection. In the meanwhile, […]
CONTINUE READING →24 April 2015 – Terre des Hommes condemns the short-sightedness and hypocrisy with which the heads of state of the European Union have decided to deal with the humanitarian emergency unfolding before our eyes. The decisions taken during the Summit of yesterday do not respond in the slightest to Terre des Hommes demand to address the […]
CONTINUE READING →Terre des Hommes Position Paper There is no more time. Fortress Europe has to open its doors to human lives. Terre des Hommes urges the European Council and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to initiate clear and decisive interventions recognizing and protecting the right to life and […]
CONTINUE READING →Migrants Tragedies in the Mediterranean Europe must open humanitarian corridors from departure countries European leaders: political responsibility and concrete actions now! 19.04.2015 – Urgency is to open humanitarian corridors for those fleeing from conflicts and to put in place an adequate and serious rescue at sea operation to prevent tragedies like today. Terre des Hommes […]
CONTINUE READING →Photo by Lynsey Addario/Getty Images Reportage 2015: a year of expected tragedies for migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Terre des Hommes planning to increase support and protection for unaccompanied children in Sicily. EU must operate a radical change of its migration policy. Destination Unknown, a program mobilizing NGOs in Europe to protect children on the […]
CONTINUE READING →First anniversary of the UN communications procedure for children marks time for global action Geneva/ New York, April 14, 2015 – As we celebrate the first anniversary of the entry into force of the Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure, the International Coalition Ratify OP3CRC, – […]
CONTINUE READING →8 April 2015 – Syria’s Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp is a small snapshot of a wider war. But it presents the clearest of pictures of overwhelming distress and destruction, and the loudest of messages of the need to find a way out. At least 3,500 children are today trapped inside Yarmouk. Terre Des Hommes calls for […]
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