terre des hommes Germany (tdh Germany) Regional Office in Southeast Asia (ROSEA) announces a vacancy for the position of Communication and Advocacy Officer, who will be responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the regional communication and advocacy plan and who will be responsible for providing support for the development of the country- and regional- level […]
The General Comment on child rights, the environment and climate change is a significant step towards holding governments accountable to uphold children’s rights and ensure children live in a clean, green, healthy and sustainable world. The General Comment will serve as authoritative guidance on how children’s rights are impacted by the environmental crisis and what […]
Southeast Asia is a region where biodiversity is one of the richest in the world. It is also in danger of massive biodiversity destruction caused by globalized capitalism, over-emphasis on economic development, expansion of genetically-modified crops, deregulated use of chemicals in agriculture, proliferation of extractive industries and agro-business plantations, civil wars, lack of laws to protect […]
23-year-old Som from Thailand is fighting against the construction of a dam on the Salween River. The dam will force tens of thousands of people from different minorities to leave their homes and destroy plant and animal habitat. Help us spread the video & sign the MY PLANET MY RIGHTS petition to ensure children from […]
This statement is made on behalf of the Child Rights Connect Working Group on child rights and the environment and the Children’s Environmental Rights Initiative. No group is more vulnerable to environmental harm than children. The numbers are truly shocking. More than 1.7 million children under the age of five lose their lives every […]
Every child has the right to a healthy environment. But, this is severely threatened! The global environmental crisis, climate change, extinction of species, plastic waste and water and air pollution massively endanger the chances of survival, especially of children: Every year 1.7 million children die before their fifth birthday from drinking contaminated water or breathing polluted […]
The rivers of South-East Asia are vital for the livelihoods of millions of people in terms of domestic use, agriculture, industry and transport (Opperman, 2018). Against the backdrop of development of infrastructure that supports a more urbanised and inter-connected life in all of the partner countries there have been changes in the ecology and bio-diversity […]
“Even when these children are born and before they can say their first word, they are denied their rights to a dignified life” – Baskut Tuncak, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Toxics Osnabrück, 28 October 2020 – Today the child rights organization Terre des Hommes is launching an international campaign “MY […]
In order to create a healthy environment for children amid COVID-19 threat, child and youth participation, among others, is instrumental and play important role in this process. Therefore, trained child peer educators of the project “Integrated Program to Support Poor and Vulnerable Children and Families through the Development of their Livelihoods and Political Participation” […]
A Second Revolution: Thirty years of child rights, and the unfinished agenda The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) is a landmark in the struggle to recognise children’s rights; a contributor to the unprecedented progress made for children over the last thirty years; and a benchmark against which we can measure […]
