Terre des Hommes welcomes the Pope’s motu proprio initiative for the...
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...
View ArticleTragedy in Lampedusa: dozens of children involved
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...
View ArticleViolence on girls: alarming data by Indifesa
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...
View ArticleLampedusa: child survivors sleeping on the ground
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...
View ArticleGaza: 250 children so far…
01 August 2014 – The Israeli offensive “protective Border” in the Gaza Strip started on 17th of July. This is the bloodiest since 2009 and the fourth since the Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza in...
View ArticleProjects in Italy : FARO
FARO IV 2014 Since January 2014, 5,293 children, of whom 3,038 were unaccompanied have landed in Syracusa, Sicily. A flow of this magnitude required a big effort for municipalities in charge of...
View ArticleA guide for social workers in reception of Unaccompanied Foreign Minors
Terre des Hommes Italy published this guide in order to provide adequate assistance to migrant children arriving by sea. The purpuse is to provide children with qualified support and enable them to...
View ArticleEbola Crisis : One year later
23 March 2015 – One year since the first cases of Ebola were detected. The virus has infected 24,000 people and killed 10,000 (source :WHO), among them a lot of children. It has affected mainly three...
View ArticleMediterranean migrants: hecatomb is feared
Migrants Tragedies in the Mediterranean Europe must open humanitarian corridors from departure countries European leaders: political responsibility and concrete actions now! 19.04.2015 – Urgency is to...
View ArticleNepal: fast mobilization of our teams
©Terre des Hommes Foundation Lausanne 28 April 2015 – Terre des Hommes has been mobilizing its teams in Nepal immediately after the earthquake. Together with our Nepalese NGO partners, we are providing...
View ArticleEcuador : An Emergency Response
The 7.8-magnitude quake struck Ecuador’s Pacific Coast on Saturday (April 16), killing at least 500 people and injuring more than 4,000. This is the worst earthquake to strike Ecuador in decades. The...
View Article#InDifesa Dossier on the situation of girls worldwide
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...
View ArticleHow TDH is making education inclusive in East Jerusalem
As yet more Palestinian children were detained by Israeli forces in East Jerusalem in April, the need for a high quality education system for the Palestinian side of the city is obvious. East Jerusalem...
View ArticleNew guide on mental health support for refugee children
The handbook, ‘FARO Model Handbook: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support to Unaccompanied Minors and Families with Children in Reception Centres‘, is based on a multilevel system of intervention,...
View ArticleOrange Revolution rises up to stamp out violence against girls
On the International Day of the Girl, Terre des Hommes is launching the Orange Revolution across Italy to stamp out violence against girls and gender discrimination – and instead spread a culture of...
View ArticleLaunch of Don’t Shake the Baby Campaign in Italy
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)...
View ArticleA guide for social workers in reception of Unaccompanied Foreign Minors
Terre des Hommes Italy published this guide in order to provide adequate assistance to migrant children arriving by sea. The purpuse is to provide children with qualified support and enable them to...
View ArticleEbola Crisis : One year later
23 March 2015 – One year since the first cases of Ebola were detected. The virus has infected 24,000 people and killed 10,000 (source :WHO), among them a lot of children. It has affected mainly three...
View ArticleMediterranean migrants: hecatomb is feared
Migrants Tragedies in the Mediterranean Europe must open humanitarian corridors from departure countries European leaders: political responsibility and concrete actions now! 19.04.2015 – Urgency is to...
View ArticleNepal: fast mobilization of our teams
©Terre des Hommes Foundation Lausanne 28 April 2015 – Terre des Hommes has been mobilizing its teams in Nepal immediately after the earthquake. Together with our Nepalese NGO partners, we are providing...
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