The winter session is coming to an end with cuts of millions in the 2025-2028 payment framework (CHF -151 million) and in the 2025 development cooperation budget (CHF -110 million). Parliament's decisions will have dramatic consequences at the expense of the poorest countries and were characterized by many false arguments, criticizes Andreas Missbach, Managing Director of Alliance Sud. Media release from the development policy competence center Alliance Sud, which
Four Swiss organizations have prepared the topic of "Mental health and children's rights" for school lessons to mark International Children's Rights Day. The teaching material is now available free of charge to teachers throughout Switzerland. International Children's Rights Day will take place on November 20, 2024. To mark the occasion, the Pestalozzi Children's Foundation, Integras and Allianz
On November 1 and 2, 2024, the "Solidarity Alert" will make a stop in Basel. Swiss development organizations, represented in Basel by terre des hommes schweiz and IAMANEH Switzerland, are using this campaign to protest against the planned cuts in international cooperation. They are receiving support from prominent politicians. This week, terre des hommes schweiz and IAMANEH
The three terre des hommes organizations in Switzerland have adopted a joint environmental policy. In it, they commit themselves to promoting the fundamental right of children and young people to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and to implementing measures to reduce their ecological footprint. Millions of children and young people worldwide are suffering from the consequences of the climate and environmental crisis
terre des hommes schweiz is committed to greater solidarity In 2023, a year marked by global crises, the organization terre des hommes schweiz consistently continued its commitment in Africa, Latin America and Switzerland and supported 373,000 young people. While the Federal Council is planning to cut the budget for development cooperation, the need for
The Federal Council presented the key figures for the 2025 budget today. It also provides for a reduction of 1.4% in international cooperation (IC). Last year, the dispatch on IC 25 - 28 provided for an increase of 2.5% to finance the reconstruction of Ukraine. The Federal Council has only
Four Swiss NGOs develop educational teaching materials on the topic of a "clean, healthy and sustainable environment" to mark International Children's Rights Day To mark International Children's Rights Day on 20 November 2023, the four organizations Pestalozzi Children's Foundation, Integras and the terre des hommes schweiz / Terre des Hommes Suisse alliance are once again presenting free educational tools under the title "Children's rights:
In Switzerland, too, intimidation suits and threats of legal action against non-governmental organizations are on the rise. Such so-called SLAPPs are intended to prevent unwelcome reports and intimidate civil society.
After imagine celebrated its 20th anniversary last year, it is now going into the next round: On Friday and Saturday, June 9/10, the popular imagine festival, a national crowd-puller with a national message, will once again take place on Barfüsserplatz in the heart of Basel. A grandiose and diverse music and awareness program once again underscores this year's
In 2022, terre des hommes schweiz collected almost 12 million Swiss francs, making it once again the best revenue year in the history of the development policy organization. The healthy finances allow terre des hommes switzerland to continue making a solid contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in favor of the perspectives of young people. In the current
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