For children, their rights and equitable development
For children, their rights and equitable development
In humanity’s efforts to empower children and create a world where every child is treated fairly, levelling the playing field between boys and girls is crucial. Girls all over the word are systematically discriminated against, with those born into poverty and lacking the opportunities to improve their circumstances at the most risk. Exploitative child labour, […]
CONTINUE READING →August 23, 2018 Twenty-seven migrant children were finally allowed to disembark from the Italian coastguard ship Diciotti yesterday, after being refused permission to leave for almost a week by Interior Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini. A Terre des Hommes employee at the scene describes what she experienced watching them leave the ship. In the last […]
CONTINUE READING →European leaders agreed today to explore opening ‘disembarkation platforms’ at the European Council summit in Brussels. Delphine Moralis, Secretary General of Terre des Hommes, said: “This decision to look into exploring ‘disembarkation platforms’ could put children and other migrants in grave danger. The European Commission must keep the best interests of children front and centre […]
CONTINUE READING →European Union leaders must respect the asylum claims of migrant children attempting to reach Europe and not outsource these obligations to other countries, Terre des Hommes and the Destination Unknown campaign said today (27 June) ahead of a European Council meeting on migration. EU leaders are meeting in Brussels tomorrow (28 June), with leaked conclusions […]
CONTINUE READING →Brussels – 14 June 2018 Children, including some who are unaccompanied, are being endangered by uncertainty in the Mediterranean caused by the Aquarius incident, children’s rights organisation Terre des Hommes warned today. Both Italy and Malta’s refusal to allow the boat, which carried 629 people rescued at sea, to dock in either country forced migrants […]
CONTINUE READING →Over 152 million children are involved in child labour worldwide, with 72 million working in conditions that are seriously hazardous to their health and wellbeing. It is a violation of children’s rights to force them to sacrifice their health, their education and their future to work. To combat this, Terre des Hommes is working with […]
CONTINUE READING →In order to bring the voices of children directly into discussions with the United Nations, Terre des Hommes created a video so children in India and southern Africa could explain how their rights are being infringed. In India, people living on or near the coast are threatened by cyclones, windstorms and heavy rain. Every year, […]
CONTINUE READING →One million children in Gaza are caught up in one of the most politicised conflicts in the world. GazaReal, Terre des Hommes’ new virtual reality film, exposes the challenges they face. According to the UN report ‘Gaza, Ten years later’ an 11-year-old child has only known life under the blockade. That’s an entire generation of […]
CONTINUE READING →Why is Greece forcing asylum seekers to remain on the Greek islands? An EU-Turkey “statement” from March 2016 committed Turkey to accept the return of all asylum seekers who reached the Greek Islands by traveling through Turkey and crossing the sea. In return the EU agreed to provide billions of euros in aid and other […]
CONTINUE READING →Research by Terre des Hommes on the use of child labour in the global mining of mica, a mineral with unique glimmering, heat-resistant and insulating properties, shows that this mineral is widely used in the automotive and electronics industry. At the same time, producers are not aware, or hardly, of the wide use of mica […]
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