Government of Djibouti integrates refugees into national education system

Refugee students in Djibouti will from now on be integrated into the national education system. This was celebrated in a ceremony on Sunday, 10 September 2017 in…

Call on developed countries to step up

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) joined with ACT Alliance and other NGOs today in presenting a statement during the UNHCR Standing Committee meeting where several UN member states were present.  …

LWF-supported platform says environmental and civil society leaders are targeted

(LWI) - A group of human rights defenders from Colombia has expressed deep concern over increasing violence against environmental and civil society leaders…

LWF conserves environment in Ethiopia

When Birzegen Yiman, 30, looks over the construction site, she does not see dust and dirt. She notices the more than 300 women and few men who carry heavy rocks, build terraces and shovel the dark…

LWF intervenes at UN Human Rights Council

(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) intervention at the 36th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), 11-29 September, included oral statements on the human rights…

LWF provides education and job opportunities to Congolese refugees

Hawa Andrew has the most beautiful house in Rwamwanja refugee settlement, Uganda.

That at least is the opinion of her family, who lives with her, and of course of…

Refugees speak about the importance of education for girls

“Education is light, ignorance is darkness,” says Fatuma Aden Siyad. If this would be be applied literally, the young woman from Somalia lived in darkness for the first eleven…

Interview with a refugee in Dadaab

(LWI) - Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya is one of the largest and oldest refugee camps in the world. It is inhabited mostly by refugees from Somalia who started fleeing the civil war and following unrests…

Guatemalan Lutheran church leader José Pilar Álvarez receives 2017 Lobbyist for Change Award

(LWI) – He has been persecuted, arrested and threatened with death, but that did not deter his commitment to fight for the rights of the…

LWF rehabilitates schools in Jordanian host communities

When the students enter the principal’s office, their admiration for their principal and school is palpable. “We are so proud of how beautiful our school is, and we are much more…