For children, their rights and equitable development
For children, their rights and equitable development
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 →From left to right: Ester Asin, Director of Save the Children EU Office, Martin SCHULZ – EP President, Seamus Jeffreson, Director of CONCORD , Sendrine Constant, Terre des Hommes Delegate for Eastern Europe Terre des Hommes Delegate for Eastern Europe tells Martin Schulz about dramatic conditions faced by migrant children escaping war and violence. Children,no […]
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 →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 →Lampedusa, 17th October 2013 – The conditions for the assistance of children at the Center of First Aid (Centro di Primo Soccorso) in Lampedusa are absolutely unacceptable. Designated for the reception of a maximum 250 people, the Center is now hosting around 800 people, about 200 of them are children. There are many families with […]
CONTINUE READING →Rome, 10 October 2013 –In Italy, sexual crimes against children have tripled in one year. Almost 80% of victims is female. Worldwide, 16 millions of girl children and young women give birth when they are too young. 125 millions of girl children and young women have suffered a form of genital mutilation. 7,5 millions of […]
CONTINUE READING →Lampedusa, Italy, 03 and 05 October 2013 – “Enough with the Emergency Response Policy”. There is the need of a permanent answer involving all the humanitarian organizations present on the island”: this is the strong message of Terre des hommes Italy following today’s tragedy where hundreds of migrants lost their lives, including women and children. […]
CONTINUE READING →Terre des Hommes welcomes the Pope’s motu proprio initiative to complete the Vatican’s normative system with the approval of laws for the protection of children, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the redefinition of the category of crimes against minors. “This act of the Holy Father is of epochal importance with […]
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