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Youth playing on the banks of Río Pogue in Atrato, northwestern Colombia. The LWF supports local communities to uphold their rights and protect the Atrato River, which has been polluted by material from extractive industries for decades. Photo: LWF/G. A. Moreno Clavijo

Youth playing on the banks of Río Pogue in Atrato, northwestern Colombia. The LWF supports local communities to uphold their rights and protect the Atrato River, which has been polluted by material from extractive industries for decades. Photo: LWF/G. A. Moreno Clavijo

Supporting marginalized people to organize and empower themselves

Report on LWF’s rights-based approach work in 2020

(LWI) – Through its local-to-global methodology, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) continues to work with refugees, internally displaced people, indigenous communities, ethnic…

News
19 Jul 2021
A group of refugees in Dosseye camp in southern Chad who are benefitting from LWF’s project for improved livelihood and access to land. (Photos taken before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic). All photos: LWF/Ophélie Schnoebelen

A group of refugees in Dosseye camp in southern Chad who are benefitting from LWF’s project for improved livelihood and access to land. (Photos taken before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic). All photos: LWF/Ophélie Schnoebelen

Welcoming strangers, finding friendship

Conversations with host communities, returnees, refugees in Chad

“We have understood that we have to live in peace with one another. The little we have, we share”, says the village chief.

We are sitting under a tree in Mbikou…

Blog
10 Jun 2021
American diplomat, human rights activist and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt holding a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948. Among those advising her as chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights was Lutheran pastor and professor Dr Frederick Nolde who drafted the section on freedom of religion. Photo: UN photo

American diplomat, human rights activist and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt holding a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948. Among those advising her as chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights was Lutheran pastor and professor Dr Frederick Nolde who drafted the section on freedom of religion. Photo: UN photo

LWF reaffirms commitment to human rights agenda

As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75, LWF recalls the legacy and renewed commitment of those working to uphold the inalienable rights and dignity of every human being

News
13 Dec 2023

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