Children's rights are threatened in many countries worldwide: poverty, exploitation and climate change rob the future chances of millions of children. We are committed to ensuring that children's rights are protected, strengthened and implemented. With projects and clear political demands, we fight for a life in dignity, for education and equal opportunities - because the realization of children's rights must be at the center of global responsibility. Support us!
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Realize children's rights
Every child has the right to the best possible development, free of cruelty, oppression, exploitation and social hardship. But the reality is sobering. In many parts of the world, children's rights are kicked with feet. Serious grievances such as poverty, hunger, war and increasingly climate change also rob children the bare essentials for a healthy growing up and their future prospects. The causes are man -made and not unchangeable.
Terre des Hommes wants to enable the children of today and tomorrow a dignified life in a fair and peaceful world. That is why we support more than 400 projects in 47 countries that realize children's rights on a small scale and precede them with a good example. Through educational work, campaigns and other forms of influence, we are committed to ensuring that decision -makers in politics, business and society comply with children's rights and take into account in their actions.
The gap between claim and reality is great. But at the same time, she is a request to act in the children's interests. Terre des hommes starts there.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Children
The most important agreement to protect children's rights at the international level is the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
196 countries have joined the UN Convention on the Rights of Children, more than any other human rights contract. The international community is obliged to implement children's rights and to pursue a policy that contributes to the fact that children's rights also come into its own under the conditions of globalization worldwide. Commercial companies also have to exercise their child law, because they influence the life of billions of children - in positive and negative.
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Development opportunities of children
Development in the sense of child rights is a holistic concept that aims to promote children's skills, their emotional and social needs as well as their physical and mental health. The task of a child -based "development policy" is to create an environment in which you can optimally develop all children and perceive their rights. To do this, the political, social, economic, cultural and ecological framework must be improved - at local, national and international level.
The development opportunities of children are extremely unevenly distributed today within and between the countries. Many children are disadvantaged due to their origin or gender when accessing education and other forms of basic care. Whether a child lives in poverty or is threatened by climate change often depends on where it is born. The politics and economy of the rich countries massively restrict the development opportunities of people in poorer countries.
Young people are almost always excluded from development policy decisions that affect them. They are increasingly frustrated by the inadequate reaction of politics to climate change and other current and future challenges.
Requirements for children's rights
- ... to anchor child rights in the Basic Law.
- ... to strengthen the social infrastructure for all children and adolescents in Germany and to participate in the solution of important future questions.
- ... to support the integration of young refugees through appropriate living conditions, opportunities for family reunification and access to fair asylum procedures in Europe.
- ... Germany's appropriate contribution to global financing of development, humanitarian aid and climate protection.
- ... a development policy offensive for children's rights so that all children get a fair chance of starting in life despite many challenges.
- ... measures to contain climate change, to adapt to climate change and to deal with climate damage that are in line with children's rights.
- ... the strengthening of the international human rights system and a foreign policy without double standards that consistently appeals to human rights violations and violations of humanitarian international law.
- A European law-conformed and ambitious implementation of EU supply chain directive (CSDDD) and supply chain law (LKSG) without lowering the existing level of protection. Forced and exploitative child labor in particular must be countered consistently.
- A UN agreement on economy and human rights to design globalization in the sense of human and children's rights.
- ... to strengthen civil society as a main pillar of promoting children's rights, democracy and development.
- ... to protect defense lawyers of children's rights from state or non -state defamation, criminalization and persecution.
- ... to create a safe and beneficial environment in which the contribution of children to ecological sustainability, justice and peace is recognized and supported as civic and political engagement.
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Jonas Schubert
Speaker Advocacy