For children, their rights and equitable development
For children, their rights and equitable development
EU AI Act must ensure all AI systems likely to be accessed by children respect their rights, say children’s organisations, parents and mental health professionals in a joint open letter The EU’s draft Artificial Intelligence Act seeks to ensure AI systems that present an unacceptable level of risk to users do not access the EU […]
CONTINUE READING →Apps, online games and ed-tech are consumer products, and must be safe for children, by design and default – say children’s organisations, parents and mental health professionals in a joint open letter The EU’s single market sets a global standard for the safety of consumer products, which policy-makers in Brussels are seeking to extend to […]
CONTINUE READING →Terre des Hommes joins 5Rights and other organisations asking the Council and Parliament for more protection for children in the Digital Services Act. Today the final round of negotiations with the EU Council on the EU Digital Service Act will commence. They have the choice to confirm children’s rights in the digital world or leave […]
CONTINUE READING →On 24 March, the European Commission adopted its first encompassing EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child, aimed at mainstreaming children’s right throughout all of its work. Terre des Hommes, alongside 23 organisations greatly welcomes the Strategy as an important step on the journey for children’s rights. We are particularly pleased with the European […]
CONTINUE READING →Joint Position Paper in the Upcoming Childs Rights Strategy Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen has entrusted Vice President for Democracy and Demography to launch a comprehensive Child Rights Strategy. The upcoming Child Rights Strategy is expected to be launched at the beginning of 2021. Terre des Hommes International Federation and partners of the Child […]
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 →Terre des Hommes launches Nonscuoterlo! (Don’t shake the baby), the first Italian national awareness campaign to prevent the Shaken Baby Syndrome. Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS)/Abusive Head Trauma (AHT) is one of the leading causes of death and disability in infants and young children. SBS/AHT describes symptoms resulting from violently shaking a child, direct blows to […]
CONTINUE READING →As the European Union enters its 60th year, providing strong protection and abundant opportunities for child migrants and refugees appears to be extremely far down the bloc’s to-do list. That’s why three child refugees, currently displaced in Egypt, have recorded both their hopes and fears for the Destination Unknown campaign – demonstrating how other child […]
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 […]
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