Since its creation in Sweden in 2000, the World’s Children’s Prize has awarded thirty laureates for their distinguished work in the fight for the Rights of the Child. An initiative to promote the Rights of the Child Chosen by a jury composed of children, the three nominees are decided between by the votes of millions […]
Street children in Morocco number approximately 30,000, a frightening statistic when you are aware of the damage such circumstances inflict upon children’s development and future. Living in poverty and outside the school system, these children are easy targets for urban violence and all kinds of traffic, whether drugs or sex, and have a future as […]
Humanium is extending its efforts to teenagers and young adults so they can pursue higher education. This is part of the organisation’s education programme: the aim is to eradicate child labour and, in the process, guarantee children consistently receive regular schooling These young people come from underprivileged villages in south eastern India where community development […]
The discrimination to which Roma children are subjected is described by Ms. Nursuna Memecan, a rapporteur for the Council of Europe, as a “specific form of racism, an ideology founded on racial superiority, a form of dehumanization and institutional racism nurtured by historical discrimination which is expressed, among other things, by violence, hate speech, exploitation, […]
Sandrine did a six-month internship within Humanium as manager of the Children’s Rights in French. “I have just finished my six-month internship with the NGO Humanium. I was in charge of developing the Rights of the Child portal in French, English and Spanish, as well as coordinating volunteers. For the most part, my participation in […]
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has seen many great changes in recent times. Political Context: In 2007, backed by Buddhist monks, the Burmese people peacefully demonstrated against the military government. Then in 2011, a civilian power officially succeeded the military Junta that had governed the country for almost 50 years, although in reality, the military […]
Chemical Attack in Syria: Syrian opposition group claim more than 1,300 dead, including hundreds of children. Lifeless bodies lay scattered on the ground. Children were convulsing, mouths hanging open and eyes rolling back into their head. Those were the images from the terrible massacre in Syria on Wednesday, August 21, 2013, from chemical weapons. Warning: […]
Report of 28 May 2013 on violence committed against girls, teenage girls and young women from indigenous communities – “Breaking the Silence on Violence against Indigenous Girls, Adolescents and Young Women: A call to action based on an overview of existing evidence from Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America“. The context within which this report […]
Nowadays, men in the Indian village of Annathur take pride in their wives. They now view them with trust and gratitude. Whilst families used to be dependent on men earning a living, meaning that more often than not children were left hungry, a professional training programme and the establishment of businesses supported by Humanium have […]
The Children’s Parliament was formed in October 1999 because the French Assemblée nationale and UNESCO had a somewhat utopist idea. The Idea The Parliament gathered four hundred (400) youth from one hundred seventy-five (175) countries at the dawn of the year 2000 to discuss numerous subjects. Many terrible conflicts had surfaced at the century’s end, […]
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