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 […]
terre des hommes Germany (tdh Germany) announces a call for applications for the full-time position of Communication Consultant. For over ten years now, tdh Germany and its partners have been promoting the right to a healthy and sustainable environment through the international campaign MY PLANET MY RIGHTS. An important milestone on the pathway to the […]
The Joining Forces Alliance (JFA), a global alliance of child-focused international non-government organizations advocating for a renewed commitment of governments to achieve the rights of children, commends and supports the efforts of the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Department of Health (DOH) in identifying 120 schools (100 public schools and 20 private schools) in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Global Initiative on Advancing Children’s Right to a Healthy Environment Outcome Report for the Regional Expert Consultation for East Asia and the Pacific Bogor, Indonesia: 22-23 October 2019 The Global Initiative on Advancing Children’s Right to a Healthy Environment was launched in early 2019. The Initiative aims to build on positive progress made in connecting […]
Why plastic waste? “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible” . Terre des homes Germany launched and is strengthening – and as we speak expanding – its Environmental Child Rights action with its Indonesia partners this year. In 2018 terre des hommes and partners identified the issue […]
The Journey of Youths in Defending for Ecological Child Rights and youth rights.’ (Article originally written by Mekong Youth Assembly, 2 February 2019) To capture how Mekong Youth Assembly is now today, the ‘Becoming Mekong – Youth” publication was created. This publication tells you story from the beginning until the Mekong Youth Assembly is now […]
