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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
