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12.02.2022 Article

Red Hand Day – against the use of child soldiers worldwide

Some 250,000 children are being abused as soldiers around the world. Today’s International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers (Red Hand Day) is drawing attention to their plight. Germany is working with great determination to protect the rights of children and children in armed conflicts

a child playing with a toy weapon
08.04.2019 Article

The Gambia – kick it like Monika!

In many countries around the world, women and girls are denied access to sport. Eight hundred girls in the Gambia are now receiving weekly football training through a project funded by the Federal Foreign Office.

Eight hundred girls from eight primary schools are receiving weekly football training as part of a recently launched grassroots project.

Press releases

  1. 20.11.2023 Press release

    Statement by Human Rights Commissioner Luise Amtsberg on World Children’s Day

  2. 20.09.2022 Press release

    Human Rights Commissioner Amtsberg on German World Children’s Day

  3. 30.03.2020 Press release

    Work of art for Germany’s Council Presidency gives children a voice: Foreign Minister Heiko Maas meets with Olafur Eliasson

  4. 12.06.2019 Press release

    Human Rights Commissioner Kofler on World Day Against Child Labour

  5. 12.02.2019 Press release

    Human Rights Commissioner on the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers

  6. 30.01.2019 Press release

    Statement by Federal Human Rights Commissioner Bärbel Kofler on a possible lowering of the minimum age of criminal responsibility in the Philippines

  7. 12.02.2018 Press release

    Human Rights Commissioner on the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers

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