For children, their rights and equitable development
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 →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 →23 March 2015 – One year since the first cases of Ebola were detected. The virus has infected 24,000 people and killed 10,000 (source :WHO), among them a lot of children. It has affected mainly three countries : Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Despite a significant decrease in the number of cases, the epidemic is not over and […]
CONTINUE READING →Terre des Hommes Italy published this guide in order to provide adequate assistance to migrant children arriving by sea. The purpuse is to provide children with qualified support and enable them to understand and accept the reasons of their migration. The guide aims to highlight the complexity of the needs of unaccompanied migrant minors and propose useful contributions to […]
CONTINUE READING →FARO project FARO is a first aid project implemented by Terre des Hommes with the aim to provide psychosocial and mental health support to the most vulnerable categories of migrants arriving in Italy by sea: unaccompanied migrant minors and families with babies. The aim of the project is to make the Italian reception system […]
CONTINUE READING →01 August 2014 – The Israeli offensive “protective Border” in the Gaza Strip started on 17th of July. This is the bloodiest since 2009 and the fourth since the Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. More than 1,444 Palestinians died so far. Three-quarters were civilians according to the UN, about 250 children. On Israeli side, […]
CONTINUE READING →Lampedusa, 17th October 2013 – The conditions for the assistance of children at the Center of First Aid (Centro di Primo Soccorso) in Lampedusa are absolutely unacceptable. Designated for the reception of a maximum 250 people, the Center is now hosting around 800 people, about 200 of them are children. There are many families with […]
CONTINUE READING →Rome, 10 October 2013 –In Italy, sexual crimes against children have tripled in one year. Almost 80% of victims is female. Worldwide, 16 millions of girl children and young women give birth when they are too young. 125 millions of girl children and young women have suffered a form of genital mutilation. 7,5 millions of […]
CONTINUE READING →Lampedusa, Italy, 03 and 05 October 2013 – “Enough with the Emergency Response Policy”. There is the need of a permanent answer involving all the humanitarian organizations present on the island”: this is the strong message of Terre des hommes Italy following today’s tragedy where hundreds of migrants lost their lives, including women and children. […]
CONTINUE READING →Terre des Hommes welcomes the Pope’s motu proprio initiative to complete the Vatican’s normative system with the approval of laws for the protection of children, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the redefinition of the category of crimes against minors. “This act of the Holy Father is of epochal importance with […]
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