A foundation for Children Born of War
Sent on behalf of German journalist Astrid Probst I am Astrid Probst, freelance journalist, working for nationwide magazines in Germany (e.g., the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, one of the biggest newspapers in the German-speaking area). Currently I am researching stories about children born of war. Though these children exist all over the world – for example from #WWII and other wars …
Cameroon organisation, GLOWA, one of our 2022 funded projects, has been advocating tirelessly in the North West and South West regions of the country, to secure the recognition of victims of conflict related sexual violence as a vulnerable group deserving support, particuarly for children fathered by armed combatants. Their advocacy has reached the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (UN …
Breaking Down Barriers to the Rights to Identity and Nationality 27 June 2023, Geneva Last month, CBOW Project Managing Director and Chairwoman, Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard, participated in a roundtable event, hosted by Global Survivors Fund (GSF), which included diverse stakeholders from humanitarian, transitional justice and child protection sectors, as well as civil society representatives, victim/survivor activists, academics and a range …
For our German-speaking followers, check out these two books, still available to buy, on children born of war… Flavia Guerrini Vom Feind ein Kind. Nachkommen alliierter Soldaten erzählen. “From the enemy a child. Descendants of Allied Soldiers Narrate.” Recent estimates suggest that in the first years after World War II, 30.000 children were born fathered by members of the Allied …
On behalf of Portuguese freelance reporter Tiago Carrasco. Mr Carrasco is based in Bavaria, Germany, and is working as a correspondent for several Portuguese and European media outlets.He is currently preparing a long feature about children abducted by criminal regimes, to appear in Portuguese weekly newspaper Expresso. The feature will start with some cases of Ukrainian children who were forcibly …
Youth Leaders for Restoration and Development We funded Youth Leaders for Restoration and Development (YOLRED) apprenticeship program for Providing Economic Empowerment for Children Born of War. YOLRED is an organisation that supports former child soldiers, child mothers, persons with disabilities, and other war-affected communities to obtain a better future through skills development, capacity building, and training to access information on …
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CBOW project managing director and chairwoman Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard invited by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to speak about Children Born of War and their mothers on the occasion of the International Women’s Day. For more information, please see here (link in German).
Learning from the past to support Children Born of War in Ukraine. Read the blog post by CBOW project board members and #EuroWARCHILD (Inger Skjelsbæk, Johanne Rokke Elvebakken, Lina Stotz and Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard). Read the article here.
Please find the article in German here. For the English version, please see here.