For children, their rights and equitable development
For children, their rights and equitable development
The digital revolution is already having many effects on our society. Mobile apps and other resources abound with convenient solutions for improving people’s lives – from ordering food to finding a date. But technological advances are also playing a big role in far more crucial ways – helping organisations deliver quality, targeted humanitarian action and […]
CONTINUE READING →Worldwide, about 70 million girls aged between 15 and 19 have been victims of some form of physical violence and about 200 million girls have been victims of genital mutilation. Every year, around 15 million girls get married before turning 18 and about 16 million girls aged 15 -19 give birth to a child. Every […]
CONTINUE READING →CSOs call on the UN Summit for a change with commitments At the High Level Summit (HLS) of the UN General Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants, which will take place in New York on 19th September 2016, the Heads of State and Government and High Representatives will adopt the Political declaration […]
CONTINUE READING →Twentieth anniversary of the landmark “Machel Study” on “The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children” Twenty years ago, Graça Machel published her landmark study entitled “The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children”. This report has alerted the international community to the suffering of children during armed conflicts and has opened door to robust action from […]
CONTINUE READING →On the occasion of the World Play Day on the 28th May, Terre des Hommes wants to highlight the benefits of using play and sport in children’s development. These activities promote the creative potential of children, facilitate the learning in school and strengthen the personal development. By playing, boys and girls develop social competences, learn how to make contacts, […]
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 →“What the world often forgets is that refugees are not failed people even after their birth nations are considered to be failed states. We have dreams and aspirations. We are resilient as a people and we will continue our demand for decency and a place to call home.”- Farah Abdullahi, former child refugee, who reached […]
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 →04 May 2015 – Report on child Sexual abuse by French troops in Central African Republic leaked. Are the UN walking the talk? What has been done by the UN in the 10 last years for the child safeguarding of children to eliminate future sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeeping operations? A high-ranking UN employee […]
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 […]
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