MISEREOR not only supports projects in the countries of the South. We are also committed to serving the poor as their voice and advocate in Germany. Our objective: promoting responsible policies and a responsible way of life in Germany that take the needs and interests of the poor in developing countries into account.

MISEREOR stands up for ...

• Indepent livelihoods and food security threatened by
  patents on life;
• humane working conditions in industrial toy production;
• the interests of the economically weak developing countries to be much more substantially taken into account in the rules governing intanational trade;
• full cancellation of the debts of the poorest countries;
• putting an end to child labour in the carpet industry;
• a total ban on land mines;
• efforts to stop child prostitution;
• the Local Agenda 21 process to be implemented in all communities in Germany.