For children, their rights and equitable development
For children, their rights and equitable development
Safe from the violence they experienced in Myanmar, the Rohingya people are now encountering serious problems in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh. In one of the tarpaulin and bamboo huts which form the labyrinth that is Kutupalong camp, Nour* cuddles her eight-month-old daughter Ayesha*. One year ago, this 25-year-old woman was forced to […]
CONTINUE READING →Brussels – 10 December 2018 Interviews available upon request The adoption of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) is a significant step forward in the fight to protect the rights of children on the move or affected by migration in other ways, said Terre des Hommes today. One in eight migrants […]
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 →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 →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 →Media Reaction Brussels – 2 February 2018 Tragedies such as the latest shipwreck off the Libyan coast will not cease until safe and legal routes for refugees and migrants to Europe are opened, child rights organisation Terre des Hommes has warned. Delphine Moralis, Secretary General of Terre des Hommes International Federation, said: “These senseless and […]
CONTINUE READING →Brussels – 14 December 2017 European leaders meeting today (14 December) must face up to the human rights horrors they have created at Europe’s borders by cutting funding to Libyan authorities and militias, and moving children and other refugees dumped in heinous conditions on Greek islands to the mainland, says Terre des Hommes. The European […]
CONTINUE READING →Brussels – 29 November 2017 The European Union must cease using development money to send children back into horrific conditions in Libya, said Terre des Hommes as the African Union – European Union Summit begins today (29 November 2017). Children on boats intercepted by Libyan coastguards are being transported back to squalid detention centres, where […]
CONTINUE READING →The working document “Child Rights in the Global Compacts: Recommendations for protecting, promoting and implementing the human rights of children on the move in the proposed Global Compacts” lays out goals, targets and indicators through which key commitments to child rights outlined in the New York Declaration can be transformed in actions for both Global […]
CONTINUE READING →Terre des Hommes’ Secretary General Ignacio Packer took part in two business events last week (commencing 3 April) – at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Latin America in Buenos Aires, Argentina and at the Global Forum on Migration and Development Business Mechanisms (GFMD) in Geneva, Switzerland. World Economic Forum on Latin America Argentinian President Mauricio Macri […]
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