After the lockdown in South Africa, many girls stopped showing up at school. They have since become pregnant. New data shows that the number of early pregnancies increased by up to two-thirds during the pandemic. To mark this year's World Sexual Health Day, we speak to Hafid Derbal, Theme Officer for Sexual and Reproductive Health,
No other country in Latin America is as badly affected by Corona as Brazil. Additional suffering is caused by increasing hunger, which affects 10 million more Brazilians than two years ago. terre des hommes Switzerland, Terre des Hommes Suisse and their Brazilian partner organisations provide psychosocial support in cases of death and help with food baskets.
In the shadow of the Corona crisis, a wave of violence is sweeping across Colombia. The region of Valle del Cauca, where terre des hommes schweiz works with young people to prevent violence, is also severely affected. Armed groups are murderously reaffirming their territorial claims there and eliminating political opponents. Only last week, gangs presumably killed five innocent young people. In June, a group of soldiers raped a 12-year-old girl. We demand that justice be done for these crimes and that the criminals do not go unpunished.
The Corona crisis is causing serious difficulties for people in the Peruvian capital Lima and other major cities. Hundreds of thousands have lost their livelihoods since the lockdown. The consequences are also being felt in the remote Andean villages around Huancavelica. There, the teenage brothers Jhoel and Jhon are making an extra effort for the family and their
The corona crisis is plunging many developing countries into emergency situations. Swiss banks have a responsibility as major creditors of these countries. Together with 10 other Swiss organisations, we are calling on the Swiss government to convene a round table to negotiate the modalities of debt relief.
Zimbabwe has a general curfew. Even though it is less strictly enforced there than in neighbouring South Africa, the majority of the population cannot get through the police roadblocks. Many HIV-positive children and young people are therefore unable to obtain their essential medicines. Our partners at MMPZ have become active and have set up a delivery service.
The corona virus spreads in several provinces of Mozambique, along hitherto undiscovered paths. Prevention therefore remains the most important protection for the people, because health care is not up to the pandemic. In Chimoio, young people are making an important contribution to the fight against the corona virus. They disseminate information and hygiene articles that many cannot afford.
In the big cities of Peru, more people lose their jobs with every lockdown day. Most of them fall through the cracks because they work in the black economy without social security. For fear of impoverishment, many of the unemployed now make their way home to the provinces to make ends meet.
The Covid 19 pandemic is having a major impact on the state of the poorest countries. Their health systems are collapsing, millions of people are unemployed and the pandemic has not yet reached its peak. That is why terre des hommes switzerland, together with other Alliance Sud organizations, is demanding more support for international cooperation from the Federal Council and the Federal Assembly. What is needed now is a
At the end of January 2021, the World Health Organization declared an international health emergency. In mid-March, the government in Tanzania imposed a total curfew, which has been extended indefinitely at the time of going to press in early May. Costantine Nyambajo, who coordinates terre des hommes switzerland's projects in Tanzania, provides information on the Covid 19 lockdown in his country in early May and
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