In a school in Gujarat’s Bhuj, India, 70 students were forced by their principals to remove their undergarments in order to continue their education. Why? Because they had to prove that they were not menstruating. This did not occur last decade or last year, it happened in early 2020. (SheThePeople, 2020) Although many countries and […]
In September 1990, Japan signed the United Convention on the Rights of the Child. Four years later, in April 1994, Japan ratified the Treaty, a document whose Article 32 outlines the rights of children to work without exploitation: “States Parties recognize the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing […]
In recent weeks child rights has been platformed at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, and by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Representations made by NGOs, Special Rapporteurs and children at the UN have made it clear that the Climate Emergency and the COVID-19 pandemic are both a child rights crisis and […]
In May 2020, UNICEF Morocco released an update on the situation of children in Morocco. This report is not only interesting in terms of its content but also in terms of its structure. Although focused on Morocco, the advice can be applied to other contexts, as can the methodology used to analyse the situation. An […]
Contemporary environmental crises such climate change, soil and water pollution, and the wide-scale loss of biodiversity contribute to 26% of annual deaths for children aged 5 and under, which amounts to approximately 1.5 million deaths every year, and two-thirds of those deaths occur in the developing world (Ortega-Garcia, 2019). A large percentage of these deaths […]
Amidst the global climate emergency, the Amazon rainforest is under imminent and intensifying threat. Unprecedented destruction of the rainforest since Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency is set to escalate even further this year, and with it the erosion of countless livelihoods and rights around the world. The global crisis of the Coronavirus pandemic has seen the underfunded […]
Humanium has signed a Joint Call to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) on its Annual Full-Day Meeting on the Rights of the Child. The Annual Day, which took place on 1 July 2020, focused on realizing children’s rights through a healthy environment. Humanium is proud to have signed the call to States of […]
The impact of coronavirus on the living conditions of refugee children What’s happening – in numbers? Of the 71 million refugees across the world, more than 80% live in developing areas without basic health services, begging the question of how to keep refugees safe during a global pandemic (Wehrli, 2020). Indeed, these vulnerable groups were, […]
Clean air is an environmental right and every child has the right to enjoy a safe, healthy and sustainable environment. Therefore, every country must protect the environmental rights of its citizens, and Indonesia is one of the countries that has formally accepted the environmental rights norms. However, since Indonesia, particularly Jakarta, records some of the […]
Humanium has launched an emergency appeal for donations in order to carry out an urgent relief project in Rwanda amid serious threats posed by the Coronavirus pandemic. The children of Rwanda are in need of your help. As humans across the world continue to face this mounting health crisis of unprecedented scale, our support for […]
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