Spread across a chain of thousands of islands between Asia and Australia, Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population. Ethnically it is highly diverse, with more than 300 local languages. The people range from rural hunter-gatherers to a modern urban elite. (Source: www.bbc.co.uk). Lying near the intersection of shifting tectonic plates, Indonesia is prone to […]
Cambodia Having gone through civil wars and social unrest for almost three decades since 1970s, Cambodia is now a place in Southeast Asia. Genocidal regime under the Khmer Rouge has significantly destroyed almost all aspects of Cambodian society and its infrastructures. Although war has ended and complete peace has arrived more than 10 years ago, […]
Tambayan Center for Children’s Rights, our partner in the Philippines, celebrates the World Play Day 2016 with the launching of a new project on the #righttoplay. Last 28 May 2016, 148 children from 5 barangays (villages) filled a spacious basketball court to do one thing: play! Children from 3 years old to young adults aged 18 […]
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. Read the report in English here.
When Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Eastern Visayas on 8 November 2013, it spawned gigantic storm surges that left over 6,000 people dead. Six months after, government records would show that almost 30,000 were injured and more than a thousand remained missing. And despite the unprecedented outpouring of humanitarian assistance, recovery work was frustratingly slow, especially in Tacloban City where post-disaster relief and aid seemingly became mired […]
Terre des Hommes (TDH) has been awarded Level 1 certification for safeguarding children following an assessment by Keeping Children Safe. “By working to keep child safe in all aspects of their work, Terre des Hommes show real leadership in the aid sector on child safeguarding. We hope all organisations follow their success in implementing the […]
We, The Mekong Youth Assembly, a network of young environmental advocate groups and individuals from six Mekong countries, get together beside the Mekong River today. We witness challenges and difficulties our fellow youth advocates are facing to protect the environment and our beloved communities. We seek for like-minded friends to join the journey of the […]
A message from Ae Najiang for the Stateless Children Protection Project, which is supported by tdh Germany and BMZ: First of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Ae Najiang. I am studying Grade 12 at Senior High School. My parents don’t have Thai nationality. Therefore, I don’t have Thai nationality even […]
The protracted refugee confinement and instability on the Thai-Myanmar border has persisted for more than 2 decades now. Moreover, surrounding remote indigenous Thai people continue to face pervasive poverty. This necessitated WEAVE Foundation and itspartners to develop interventions that will allow to “build sustainable solutions and alternatives for displaced refugees and neighboring Thai communities”. It […]
The Global Action Month on Child Rights (GAM) was founded in 2014 by children and youth of the terre des hommes International Youth Network. On the occasion of the anniversary of the UN Child Rights Convention children and youth worldwide claim their rights in the action month of November. Last year 152 actions all over […]
