For children, their rights and equitable development
For children, their rights and equitable development
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 […]
CONTINUE READING →ONLY ONE CANDIDATE MAKES FIRM PLEDGE TO TACKLE HUMAN RIGHTS AND CORRUPTION IN WORLD FOOTBALL (Berlin, 14 May 2015) – In response to a survey from a coalition of leading NGOs, sports organisations and trade unions, only one of the four candidates for the FIFA presidency has set out a plan to address human rights, […]
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, – […]
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