More than half of all refugees are children
World Refugee Day, 20th June 2013 More than 43 million people worldwide are on the move press realese Osnabrück, 19.06.2013 – Worldwide, according to United Nations estimates more than 43 million...
View ArticleSyrian children: Twice as victims of the conflict
Switzerland: the Terre des Hommes movement calls on the Swiss government to increase its support to Syrian refugees. PRESS RELEASE Lausanne, Geneva, Basel, 15 October 2013 – Even though an opening by...
View ArticleYarmouk: a terrible snapshot of a wider war
8 April 2015 – Syria’s Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp is a small snapshot of a wider war. But it presents the clearest of pictures of overwhelming distress and destruction, and the loudest of...
View ArticleWorld refugee day : One in two refugees is a child
“What the world often forgets is that refugees are not failed people even after their birth nations are considered to be failed states. We have dreams and aspirations. We are resilient as a people and...
View ArticleAylan, 3-year old. He was a child…. “on the move”
Illustration by Elena Sartorius Thursday 03 September 2015 – Heartbraking pictures of Aylan, a refugee toddler, lifeless, washed up on a Turkish beach. He is wearing a red T-shirt and long blue shorts...
View ArticleRefugee Crisis EU Council: about children’s lives
15 September 2015 – One day ahead of the extraordinary EU Council Justice and Home Affairs meeting today in Brussels, the German Government decided to close its border with Austria. As a consequence,...
View ArticleOur demands face to face with Martin Schulz
From left to right: Ester Asin, Director of Save the Children EU Office, Martin SCHULZ – EP President, Seamus Jeffreson, Director of CONCORD , Sendrine Constant, Terre des Hommes Delegate for Eastern...
View ArticleSyria : War against children
Five years of war in Syria Five years after the outbreak of violence in Syria, an incomprehensible humanitarian disaster prevails. Around half of the 22 million inhabitants of Syria are on the run...
View ArticleBecause we struggle to survive
Terre des hommes’ report indicates dramatic increase of child labour among Syrian refugees. Child labour among Syrian refugees has reached an alarming scale. Terre des Hommes identified multiple forms...
View ArticleBrutal violation of Syrian children’s rights
The ongoing outbreak of violence in Syria is killing and maiming children in areas of eastern Aleppo. Moreover, airstrikes are hitting the few remaining hospitals and the use of bunker-busting bombs...
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