Following Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) recent report “‘My Teacher Said I Had a Disease’: Barriers to the Right to Education for LGBT Youth in Vietnam”, Humanium calls on the government of Vietnam to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ children and adults. Published on February 12, 2020, the document reports on the conditions which LGBTQ+ youth […]
The following is based on personal experiences while working with a group of refugee children at a primary school in Northern Sweden between 2016 and 2018. The events described here are not implied to represent a national trend in Sweden. The characters’ names and nationalities have been altered to protect their identities. Migrationsverket – a […]
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 is femicide and how does it impact girls? Femicide is a pervasive violation against the human rights of women and girls (Cullen et al, 2019). Femicide, a form of gender violence, can be broadly defined as any act of murder carried out against women and girls, whether it is intentional or not, that is […]
Taking an introspective look at humanitarian action’s pitfalls throughout the 2010s is key for the constant betterment and no-repeat of past mistakes that must, without question, unfold within the sector in the new decade. Our turning into the new year provides an invaluable opportunity to also turn the page, and to honestly attest to humanitarianism’s […]
While the European Union stands as a shining beacon of child rights and protection in the world, a dark presence tarnishes it in the form of child trafficking. Every year thousands of people are forcibly transported into the EU. At any given time, it is thought that there may be up to 140 000 people […]
For the first time, Humanium is presenting a series of chronicles that aim to take us to the heart of Palestine using four themes, each one shining a different light on this stunning and complex region. This is the last one in the series. Whether it is the inequitable distribution of underground water reserves, the […]
The International Day of Migrants offers a key moment to spotlight migrating people around the world; as well as the inequalities upon which human movement is posited. Humanium considers that the plight of people who are forced migrants and refugees should be at the centre of our work towards a better future. What is the […]
Violence against girls and women is a devastating detriment to our planet and on the human population. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – on 25th November 2019 – commemorates the impacts of this violence, and provides a chance to work towards the eradication of gender based violence in our world […]
History of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (hereinafter UNCRC) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on the 20 November 1989 and is widely acclaimed as a landmark achievement for human rights, recognizing the roles of children as social, economic, health, […]
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