“A responsibility to ensure the evidence we collect is robust”
MAPUTO, Mozambique/GENEVA, 29 May 2015 (LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation is part of an NGO coalition that is gathering evidence of human rights concerns for a United…
New global standards expected to bring about greater accountability
Bogota, COLOMBIA/Geneva, 9 June 2015 (LWI) - The work of the Lutheran World Federation in Colombia has been held up as a model of how a new humanitarian…
“Deeply impressed with resilience of Nepalese people”
KATHMANU, Nepal/ GENEVA, 15 June 2015 (LWI) - There was an awkward moment when Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen visited…
“Common vision to protect dignity of girls and women”
(LWI) – Faith-based organizations have issued a joint statement for advancing women’s rights and denouncing gender-based violence at the 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council. In…
ADJUMANI, Uganda / GENEVA, 20 June 2015 (LWI) – It’s exam time in Ayilo 1 primary school, but Nyaring’s (not her real name) smiling face indicates that maths and social science were not too…
DOHUK, Iraq/ GENEVA, 19 June 2015 (LWI) – Shahla Edno started her life in a plastic crate. Born in December 2014 at the Berseve 1 camp near the city of Zakho in Northern Iraq, her mother Kamla had…
DOSSEYE, Chad/ GENEVA, 19 June 2015 (LWI) - “A civil servant buys what he needs in a market. A farmer has it at home,” Daniel Deba, President of the seed production group quotes a proverb he learned…
"Of course I want to go back home. I miss my country."
« Om mani padmi om »… The old woman mumbles while touching the prayer wheels outside the stupa- or gomba- in the Tishaling Tibetan Settlement near Pokhara, Nepal. There are four…
General Secretary Junge: Escalating impact on the poor makes advocacy urgent
(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has welcomed Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’ — On Care for Our Common Home”, as an encouragement for all those…
