Play is a primordial feature of a child’s life… Not only is it recognised as a human right, but is also a universal phenomenon common to children all over the world. Play not only allows a child to develop, to learn to live in society and to build self-confidence, it also allows them to develop […]
We often think of practices such as FGM happening in faraway countries and that here in the UK it is something we can forget about. WRONG. Female Genital Mutilation is a global problem, with 140 million girls cut across the world; but with 24,000 girls under the age of 15 at risk of FGM in […]
Under article 34 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, all UN Member States — except the United States —committed to protecting children from sexual abuse. This includes the fight against prostitution as well as involvement in pornographic performances. What is child pornography? According to EU law, images showing children taking part in […]
Bacha bazi: these seemingly unassuming words describe a contemptible tradition. The name comes from the Iranian and Afghan words for “playing with boys” and from the Persian for “pre-pubescent boy”. Dressed as women, wearing make-up, and with little bells on their wrists and ankles, the bacha bazi are young, poor, and pre-pubescent Afghani boys. Older […]
Humanium and the Alliance of Lawyers for Human Rights have forged a partnership to improve the service and quality of Humanium’s Helpline. A common goal: the defense of Children’s Rights Humanium’s mission is to put a stop to children’s rights violations while promoting and defending those rights. While this mission is put into action worldwide […]
During the holidays, Humanium received a donation with a story attached that caught our attention. It is a story in which children help other children who haven’t been given a chance to enjoy a trouble-free childhood with basic rights. Calista Garcia is 13 years old. She is a musician, composer, and actress in 8th grade […]
In the Cox’s Bazar District of Bangladesh, a team of nurses and doctors will be visiting two public schools located in two impoverished villages in remote parts of the region. The purpose of this visit is to offer children and their families a free medical consultation, as well as training to promote preventive health care […]
Since the declaration of the new Islamic State – also known as Daesh – on 9 April 2014 and even earlier, all human rights, especially where children are concerned, have been violated and disregarded in this territory. The villages attacked, destroyed and burned by Daesh have become the ideal landscape for radical Islamist militants. Children […]
Tamatave, Saturday night, 10 o’clock. A truck stops at the seaside; girls step out. In Nosy Be, a tourist town in the west of Madagascar, 40% of young women have their first sexual experience in the context of prostitution—and, for many of them, this happens around the age of 14. Similarly, in the town of Morondava […]
School: a place for children to learn and grow? Not for the Taliban. In 2009, 500 suicide attacks were committed by children, the majority of whom had previously enrolled in schools designed to teach them to become military-trained kamikazes. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, founder of The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, followed several of these children at their […]
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