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3 Feb 2012 • Trafficking and exploitation Togo

Togo: The kids from the Grand Market in Lomé

In Togo, as in many other countries, hundreds of children from the villages migrate towards the large cities to seek their fortunes and a better living. But what they so often find there is a situation of vulnerability. According to a survey carried out by Tdh, 75% of the kids... Read more

2 Feb 2012 • Trafficking and exploitation Nepal
Nepal: Children labouring in brickyards - Irreparable damage

Children as young as six are working full time in 120 brick factories around Kathmandu. Working in brick factories exposes workers, especially children, to irreparable health damage including acute respiratory infections, spinal injuries and lung cancer. Black carbon released ... Read more
27 Jan 2012 • Juvenile justice Peru
Peru: Fight against violence in schools

After cases of persecution in Peruvian schools, the rulings of the law regarding good behaviour in schools have been approved, and are based in particular on Tdh's experience in restorative juvenile justice. Read more
26 Jan 2012 • Trafficking and exploitation Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Ganzourgou, gold mine and child exploitation

A dozen traditional gold mining sites have appeared in recent years in the province of Ganzourgou. Gold panners from all over flock there to work the sites, most often living in the greatest promiscuity, without any infrastructure for sanitation and with no access to public ba... Read more
24 Jan 2012 • Health and nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene... Guinea
Guinea – Insalubrity in health centres

Terre des hommes urges the State towards 'conscience re-awakening'. Tdh has just launched a project to improve the conditions of hygiene in seven health centres in Conakry. This intervention will greatly improve the quality of the healthcare given to 262,000 mothers and children. Read more
19 Jan 2012 • Various Switzerland
A global responsibility: To remedy the shortage of health personnel in Switzerland

In a manifesto launched on January 16th, 2012, a wide coalition has been mobilised so that Switzerland assumes its responsibility towards the global shortage of health personnel. In this manifesto, it shows its commitment that Switzerland should increase training health profes... Read more
18 Jan 2012 • Trafficking and exploitation, Health and nutrition... Benin and Nigeria
Benin: Terre des hommes and PLAN International fight together for the promotion of child rights

In Benin, Terre des hommes and PLAN International have just signed up to a partnership and a three-year plan of action in the Department of Zou, where the two organisations are already installed. From now on they will be intervening jointly to benefit of children affected by m... Read more
10 Jan 2012 • Humanitarian crises Haiti
Haiti: Two years after the earthquake - Terre des hommes stays to help the most helpless

Two years after the disastrous earthquake in January 2010 and the terrible cholera epidemic that struck the island a few months later, Terre des hommes (Tdh) carries on with its commitment to help the most underprivileged Haitians. Present in Haiti for the past twenty years, t... Read more
6 Jan 2012 • Trafficking and exploitation Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Responsibility and solidarity with young domestic servants

Every year, after the harvest season, hundreds of young girls migrate to the urban centres of Burkina Faso to get work as domestic servants. These girls often suffer abuse and all kinds of violence. Terre des hommes has recently had a code of ethics signed by members of their ... Read more
5 Jan 2012 • Child protection systems Colombia
Colombia: Terre des hommes restructures public policies

In a context marked by years of violence, Terre des hommes and the University of Cartagena have presented a survey analysing in depth the strengths and difficulties encountered by four municipalities when facing problems that touch childhood. Recently elected mayors have under... Read more