Women’s group in Jordan advocates against early marriage and child labor
(LWI) – In the eyes of her family and community, Wafeh should feel happy: Her daughter has already received two offers for marriage. As a mother of five girls, the…
Incessant rainfalls and floods have caused death and destruction in Southern Nepal. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA), 143 people have been killed, 43 injured and 30 have gone missing in…
(LWI) - A decision by the United Nations (UN) Security Council on 15 November to add a further 900 peacekeepers to the UN mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) has been welcomed by…
LWF peace committee mediates conflicts in refugee camp in Cameroon
“We thought about what had happened, what we had lost. We thought about family members who had been killed, and we got angry very easily,” says Bachirou Moussa, president…
Re-building Homes and Lives after Devastating 2015 Earthquake
(LWI) - Building her own home has been a dream for Kali Kamini, known in her Nepali village as ‘Grandma’ – and her dream became reality thanks to The Lutheran World Federation…
LWF Part of Cross-Sector Coalition Helping Refugee Settlements Go Digital
(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has joined a high-powered public-private coalition to transform refugee settlements into digitally-connected communities…
Panel discussion on fair representation of refugees in news reporting
(LWI) - Few media report the stories of refugees directly, is the finding of a new study about the representation of refugees and migrants in the media. Since the…
