The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is the first and only international periodical
review that monitors state actors’ actions related to the realization of the right to food. Read more...

Small seeds for an active civil society are starting to grow in the poor Central Asian Republic Kyrgyzstan where children have to work to get an income to the family Read more...

Nearly 500 children are currently detained in Cambodia’s prisons. For these children, the prisons they call “home” are overcrowded, unhygienic and lacking in basic facilities. Many are detained with adults, they are regularly held in pre-trial detention that exceeds the legal time limit, and many are sentenced to prison time without any regard to their age. A coalition of local and international groups has called on the government to pass legislation to protect the children. Read more...

"It is about empowering the poor to fight for their universal rights,” says International Director Christian Friis Bach. In DanChurchAid’s partner-based programme work, there are more and more examples of a rights-based approach in action. The rights-based approach is about identification, influence and assisting poor people in organising and involving themselves. It is about enabling the poor to fight for their universal rights.
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Rights-based approaches in Cambodia: International Director of DanChurchAid, Christian Friis Bach, has just visited LWF Cambodia programme in Sleng Village, where rights-based approaches begins to work successfully. Read more...

"Working rights-based is a major challenge, but organisations like DanChurchAid can help combat this challenge by commiting to long-term support," states DanChurchAid's Indian partners Jagori and Sahanivasa. Read more...

Seminar programme, 9 November, 2006, on the challenges and experiences in working with rights-based approaches in development. DanChurchAid and other Danish NGOs debate lessons learnt from rights-based work.
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Human trafficking can be described as a modern-day form of slavery. Trafficking involves the transport or trade of people within and across borders for the purpose of forcing them into slavery conditions. Trafficking is a serious violation of human rights. In Cambodia, DanChurchAid works for the recognition of trafficked persons, especially women and girls, to be seen as victims with rights - in need of protection and assistance - rather than as offenders or illegal migrants. Read more...

DanChurchAid works with a rights-based approach, empowering people to claim their economic and social rights and thereby fight structural causes of poverty. Read more...

The money from the humanitarian bottle refund collection at Roskilde Festival 2005, which raised more than 400.000 DDK (approx. USD 66,514), was donated in Cambodia last Tuesday. Read more...

The widening of civic and political space in Malawi is a matter of raising awareness of the notion of rights at all levels. DanChurchAid's programme work in Malawi is addressing issues that deter the most vulnerable from being involved in the decision-making processes that affect them. Read more...