Good physical and emotional health is essential to a young mother so she can raise her child in peace. Humanium supports a project led by the Alianza organisation in Guatemala City. Thanks to this project, women and their babies have access to healthcare. In Guatemala, many young girls are still the victims of trafficking […]
The Day of the African Child was created by the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union). It focuses on the lives of young Africans, and every year it proposes an issue for participants to discuss. This day commemorates the 1976 march by African schoolchildren to Soweto, South Africa. These children took to the […]
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) launched the World Day against Child Labour in 2002. The aim was to draw attention to the plight of child workers and also to highlight the action necessary to eradicate child labour. Every year, on the June 12, governments, employers, individuals, members of civil society and work organisations join together […]
Fleeing from dictatorship, hunger, torture and labour camps, North Korean migrants, persecuted in their own country, are far from reaching the end of their suffering, even when they do make it over the border. Some head towards China, but there, they are considered economic migrants, rather than political refugees, and they are forcefully expelled and repatriated back to […]
South Sudan became independent following a long duration of peace starting with the signature of the Global Peace Agreement between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement on January 9, 2005. This agreement brought more than 20 years of war to a close. The peace agreement foreshadowed the results of a referendum organized […]
It’s twelve noon and time for lunch. In the school playground, the pupils line up quietly with their plates in hand. Meal times are always a calm affair. Once served, each pupil sits at a table and enjoys their meal amongst friends in the shade of the trees. This peaceful time during the school day […]
The Islamic group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 high school girls in Nigeria and then threatened to reduce them to slavery. Humanium participates in the international online demand for their release. #BringBackOurGirls: Let’s act! We can all ask for the release of the young girls by using the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls on social networks. More […]
UNICEF was born by accident. Within the new organisations put in place after the Second World War, there was no intention to create one dedicated solely to children. However, the winter of 1946-1947 was particularly hard, and children were among those who suffered worst of all. A man, a Polish doctor named Ludwik Rajchman, proposed […]
The Afghan government signed the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on August the 14th 1980, but, because of serious regional conflicts, the convention was only ratified in 2003. Afghanistan has since revised its Constitution so that gender equality is more clearly defined by law. Both sexes now will enjoy legal rights […]
Building a giant library filled with a hundred books and DVDs in all languages: this is the goal of the Human Resource Development Foundation. It wants to create it for the many unaccompanied child refugees that it hosts upon their arrival in Turkey. Thanks to Humanium, this library will not simply be a mirage, but […]
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