Day of General Discussion (DGD) 2018, organised by Child Rights Connect, gathers each year, associations, NGO’s, and of course children, present to speak, and defend their rights. The Committee on the Rights of the Child is held every 2 years, a DGD focused on a specific article of the Convention on the Rights of the […]
From 24 to 28 September, the Children’s Rights Committee met at the Palais Wilson to ensure that children’s rights are being properly implemented and respected in Niger and Benin. These two West African countries, face problems of poverty and population explosion. Both countries gave a summary of their work in previous years, following which experts […]
We at Humanium seized the opportunity to participate within the Geneva Peace of Week to build connections with all those different active actors and specifically as members of the working group “Children and armed conflict”. What is Geneva Peace Week? Geneva Peace Week is a collective action initiative facilitated by the United Nations Office […]
In any country, education is key to development and its slightest neglect can have alarming consequences for the well-being of children and their future. In 2017, the Moroccan Court of Accounts published a report highlighting certain shortcomings in the national education system such as lack of teachers and services or even dilapidated and overcrowded classrooms. […]
Kids on the streets, almost without clothes no matter if it’s hot or cold, asking for some money to buy something to eat. This is a typical image of Latin America and in Brazil that has become the most visible in recent years. The report “Scenario of Childhood and Adolescence in Brazil” published by the […]
As stated by the World Health Organization, “mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders”; mental health is fundamental to health and overall wellbeing because “without mental health there is no health” (World Health Organization, 2018a). Mental health issues at a young age affect children and adolescents all around the world in all […]
Emilie Compignie, in charge of Development, talks about the success of Humanium’s first projects in India, where she measured the impact almost 10 years after their launch. Sankarapuram Sankarapuram was the first village that Humanium and Hand in Hand supported in Tamil Nadu in 2009. The Child Learning Centre was then […]
With a new intuitive understanding of children’s rights. “You have no right to hit your wife!” systematically claims Arndt Soret, chairperson and founder of Humanium when coaching groups in Rwanda. “Violence and guilt will keep on being passed on like hot potatoes from generation to generation since the 1994 genocide, if we don’t do anything […]
.. was the key message of Sierra Leone’s Mellicentia’s speech at the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva on Friday, 28th of September 2018. Over 20 children (aged between 14 and 17) had the chance to lead us through the various conferences about the world’s problems and solutions […]
At 15, we dream of a future painted in the colors of our passions, and our desires are affirmed in the midst of the first parties, scholarly dilemmas, loves, and in inextinguishable friendships. But in Kaboul, Herat or Kandahar, for millions of teenagers, the present bombarded the playground and the future is uncertain. According to […]