Migration
Terre des hommes protects children in migration, whether it is voluntary or forced. We raise awareness of the related risks while taking into account the opportunities migration can offer these children. We work to ensure they maintain access to their rights and propose alternative solutions where possible.
What we do
Reducing vulnerability among migrant children
No matter why children migrate, Tdh accompanies them, protects them, and makes them less vulnerable. We work with children at their point of departure, during their journeys and when they arrive at their final destinations. Our teams ensure children have access to their rights throughout their journey. They work to reduce and prevent the risks children are liable to face and to increase their resilience, providing them with help when they find themselves in difficulty.
Protecting child migrants
Protecting child migrants can also be achieved by increasing their access to better opportunities and sustainably improving their living conditions, not to mention the conditions of their community as a whole. At the point of departure, Tdh's work focuses on the economic causes of migration and the well-being of local populations. Once they have reached their final destination, Tdh encourages children to seize opportunities for development and helps them to integrate. TDH supports migration stakeholders and their initiatives when they are consistent with children's best interests.
Advocacy, awareness raising and communication
In Europe and elsewhere in the world, the political context does not favour the protection of child migrants' rights. Additional efforts are required in the areas of advocacy, awareness raising and communication, at both an international level and in the societies where these migrants end up. TDH carries out advocacy work with the public authorities on the one hand, and supports the State authorities on the other with the development and implementation of laws, policies and mechanisms to protect children in mobility.
Key projects
“Before, we didn’t know what to do when people called us about children who were unaccompanied migrants, beggars or living in the street. We didn’t know how to look after them. Now we have the training and tools to help.”
Sophie Dara Kassogue, Director of the Maison de la Femme et de l’Enfant (Institute for Women and Children) in Mopti
Read more...Jordan: helping children to be children again
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Benin: Tdh discusses child migration with Doris Leuthard
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Benin: Tdh discusses child migration with Doris Leuthard
20.07.2017
“The new Hungarian law will affect the rights of children”
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20.07.2017
“The new Hungarian law will affect the rights of children”
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Between risks and opportunities: protecting migrant children in West Africa
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Between risks and opportunities: protecting migrant children in West Africa
11.05.2017
2016: Tdh child relief reaches a new peak with 3 million beneficiaries
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11.05.2017
2016: Tdh child relief reaches a new peak with 3 million beneficiaries
03.05.2017
Migration: between myth and reality
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03.05.2017
Migration: between myth and reality
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A Syrian family makes a new life in Switzerland
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03.05.2017
A Syrian family makes a new life in Switzerland
06.04.2017
Unaccompanied children in the Balkans: out of sight, exploited and alone
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Unaccompanied children in the Balkans: out of sight, exploited and alone
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Related publications
Making an Impact for Children: Annual Report 2015.
Thematic policy - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Courage No. 52 – Fleeing to save the children
