Journalist looking for CBOW from all over the world for interview

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 …

UN OCHA visits GLOWA, Cameroon

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 …

Expert Roundtable on Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

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 …

Books on children born of war

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 …

Request for Interview with Norwegian Lebensborn ‘Child’

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 …

Mid-term updates from our Grant Winners

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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