For children, their rights and equitable development
For children, their rights and equitable development
PRESS RELEASE Kabul – 26 January 2018 We, the 61 undersigned National and International Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), members of Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief and Development (ACBAR), condemn in the strongest terms the atrocious attack on NGO offices in Jalalabad (Nangarhar) on Wednesday 24 January. It has been reported that there is a loss […]
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 →African and European leaders wrapped up the African Union – European Union Summit earlier today, commenting on migration to Europe and the human rights abuses taking place in Libya. Lavinia Liardo, Senior Policy Officer at Terre des Hommes said: “The EU’s scramble to stop people crossing the Mediterranean is short-sighted, costing hundreds of millions of […]
CONTINUE READING →Climate change is pushing children in the Global South into ever more dangerous forms of child labour and exploitation, a new report by Terre des Hommes has warned. The report reveals how climate change and environmental degradation in Nepal, India, Burkina Faso, Peru and Nicaragua is forcing children to swap either safer work or not […]
CONTINUE READING →Launch of CONCORD Policy Paper on Migration and development:“Coherence for migration and security and what about development?” Today CONCORD (European Confederation of Relief and Development NGOs) launches its new Policy Paper ‘Coherence for migration and security. And what about development?’”. The last of a series of thematic papers which together constitute the PCD Spotlight Report 2015, […]
CONTINUE READING →Migration : solutions built on values and evidence 14 October 2015 – As Chair of the Civil Society Days of the 2015 Global Forum on Migration and Development, Mr. Ignacio Packer, Secretary General of Terre des Hommes International Federation is addressing today about 150 delegations of governments, international organisations and some 265 civil society delegates […]
CONTINUE READING →Balkans, Hungary, Calais, Greece, Sicily… the ‘Lampedusa Tragedies’ now at internal borders Terre des Hommes condemns the violence against migrant children Find our press release below Today, European Commission Vice-President Timmermans and Commissioner Avramopoulos are visiting the “Calais migrants crisis”. They are both continuing their “European Borders Tour” to Kos (Greece) next Friday, to Traiskirchen […]
CONTINUE READING →Migrants children exploited in fishery industry in Thailand Brussels, 11 June 2015 – In the Thai shrimp industry children are severely exploited. Six days a week, ten hours a day. They shell shrimps that end up on the plates of European consumers. Most of the children come from Myanmar, from where they migrate through smugglers. […]
CONTINUE READING →Why thousands of migrants deaths are needed to propose a European Migration policy? 12 May 2015 – The European Commission will propose a new EU Agenda on Migration on May 13th. Since the “Lampedusa tragedy” in 2013, Terre des Hommes has been reiterating that migrants tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea were not “an emergency”, but […]
CONTINUE READING →FIFA ELECTIONS: ADDRESSING CORRUPTION ALSO MEANS ENDING CHILDREN’S RIGHTS ABUSES Geneva, 29 May 2015 – Responding to the result of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) presidential elections today, in which Sepp Blatter has won a fifth term in office, Terre des Hommes Secretary General, Ignacio Packer said: “In order to ‘root out any […]
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