For children, their rights and equitable development
For children, their rights and equitable development
Civil society acting and expressing concrete solidarity with migrants Geneva 18th December – International Migrants Day marks the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. An estimated 214 million persons worldwide are international migrants. 740 million are internal migrants. Children and youth […]
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 →Strong messages at the Global Forum on Migration and Development, operational solutions debated, sharing and learning… The leadership of governments is urgently needed for the implementation of solutions based on values framed by human rights and evidence. Children on the move and their families cannot wait! Following the two Civil Society Days (12th-13th October) of […]
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 →15 September 2015 – One day ahead of the extraordinary EU Council Justice and Home Affairs meeting today in Brussels, the German Government decided to close its border with Austria. As a consequence, Germany decided to “breach Schengen” few weeks after “breaching Dublin”. This “marks a significant escalation of the crisis, … which many view […]
CONTINUE READING →Illustration by Elena Sartorius Thursday 03 September 2015 – Heartbraking pictures of Aylan, a refugee toddler, lifeless, washed up on a Turkish beach. He is wearing a red T-shirt and long blue shorts that stop below the knee. He fled his home, where he wasn’t wanted, sought shelter on an island that didn’t want him, […]
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 →Brussels, 15 June 2015 – At the occasion of the first European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, Children Win campaign led by Terre des Hommes, as part of the Sport and Rights Alliance, organized the #DrawAttention Cartoon Contest to raise awareness on Human Rights violations before, during and after Mega Sporting Events. The winners of the #DrawAttention contest were announced […]
CONTINUE READING →Brussels, European Development Days, 04 June 2015 – Migration has been high on the agenda of the 2015 European Development Days edition. Both Presidents of the European Commission and of the European Parliament made strong points on Migration as crucial issue in the EU development discourse in their respective opening speeches. As member of CONCORD and its Migration&Development […]
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