On Tuesday, 21 July 2020, Humanium held its annual General Assembly, attended by the Humanium Team, supporters and friends. The General Assembly was an opportunity to review Humanium’s activities, endeavours in 2019 and our work so far in 2020. Each Department Manager, as well as Humanium’s Co-founders Arndt and Olivier Soret, delivered their own insight […]
Humanium attended the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s (CRC) 84th session this January 2020, where we sat in on the review of the state of Rwanda. Humanium’s co-founder and CEO Arndt Soret was back in Rwanda again just a few months ago in November 2019 delivering Humanium’s Child Rights Workshops to […]
What an amazing and fulfilling two weeks Humanium just spent in Rwanda! Fourteen workshops in the villages of Rwanda, experiencing child rights from the inside out with 600 children, caregivers, friends of families, local leaders and students. We trained them in skills like deep listening, acknowledgement, connecting, building powerful communities of youngsters that are now […]
I was recently interviewed by my colleagues at Lonza Basel where I work as a data protection lawyer for a couple of days per week in order to keep Humanium as fully volunteer service. They were very interested to find out more about our mission and projects, and I got the opportunity to share more […]
On November 20, 1989, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the International Convention on the Rights of the Child. Unanimously! This was the first time in our history that states unanimously adopted a text on human rights. We all agree, we have a common goal: to achieve full rights for all children. On November […]
Today the world celebrates the non-governmental organisations. Why? Because YOU are important. When I was only 7 years old I heard that 42,000 children die every day for reasons that are avoidable. I went on food strike until my parents threatened me to admit me to hospital and made me understand that even them were […]
Saudi Arabia was the center of attention at the meeting of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on October 1st, 2018 at the Palais Wilson in Geneva. During the 79th session of the Committee, the 2331 and 2332 meetings were respectively devoted to the consideration of the optional protocol to the Convention on […]
“When I was still a boy, one day at school they spoke about the children in need in Madagascar and the conditions under which they were living and there was something that was moved inside me and changed my mind and the way I saw the world…I think that perhaps if I had missed school […]
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 […]
.. 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 […]
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