For children, their rights and equitable development
For children, their rights and equitable development
The ongoing outbreak of violence in Syria is killing and maiming children in areas of eastern Aleppo. Moreover, airstrikes are hitting the few remaining hospitals and the use of bunker-busting bombs means children cannot even safely attend schools that are underground. This is pointed out by Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Chair of the UN Committee on […]
CONTINUE READING →Terre des hommes’ report indicates dramatic increase of child labour among Syrian refugees. Child labour among Syrian refugees has reached an alarming scale. Terre des Hommes identified multiple forms of child labour particularly in Syria and Syria’s neighbouring countries in its Child Labour Report 2016. “The devastating living conditions of the people in Syria as […]
CONTINUE READING →Five years of war in Syria Five years after the outbreak of violence in Syria, an incomprehensible humanitarian disaster prevails. Around half of the 22 million inhabitants of Syria are on the run inside and outside the country. The life expectancy in the country decreased by 13 years since the beginning of the war. Air strikes […]
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 →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 →“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 →8 April 2015 – Syria’s Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp is a small snapshot of a wider war. But it presents the clearest of pictures of overwhelming distress and destruction, and the loudest of messages of the need to find a way out. At least 3,500 children are today trapped inside Yarmouk. Terre Des Hommes calls for […]
CONTINUE READING →Switzerland: the Terre des Hommes movement calls on the Swiss government to increase its support to Syrian refugees. PRESS RELEASE Lausanne, Geneva, Basel, 15 October 2013 – Even though an opening by the Swiss government has to be acknowledged, the Terre des Hommes movement in Switzerland calls on the Swiss government to host more Syrian […]
CONTINUE READING →World Refugee Day, 20th June 2013 More than 43 million people worldwide are on the move press realese Osnabrück, 19.06.2013 – Worldwide, according to United Nations estimates more than 43 million people are fleeing. Almost half of them are children under the age of 18. In order to protect these children and to strengthening their […]
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