The conflict in the Central African Republic (‘CAR’) is worsening every day. With over 500,000 people displaced within the country, children are the most affected by the crisis. This particularly vulnerable population has the right to protection and assistance, which creates a major challenge for humanitarian aid workers. Weapons of war in the hands of […]
The conflict in the Central African Republic (‘CAR’) is worsening every day. With over 500,000 people displaced within the country, children are the most affected by the crisis. This particularly vulnerable population has the right to protection and assistance, which creates a major challenge for humanitarian aid workers. Weapons of war in the hands of […]
While integrating into the Humanium team, I immediately realized that the work would live up to my expectations. And I was right. From volunteer management to project management, all in support for the development of the organization, the activities I was involved in, could not have been more varied and exciting. The online work allowed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Of the nineteen official refugee camps that make up the West Bank, next to Nablus, Balata is the most densely populated. Created in 1950 following the Arab-Israeli war, it now houses over 23,000 people. Life in Balata is nothing like life in a castle… “Young Palestinians in the camp, discouraged, sometimes approach Israeli check points […]
Since the Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1959, states have acknowledged a moral obligation to act in the best interests of children. Fifty-four years on, the situation for children in France is discouraging. According to Anne Tursz, director of research at the National Institute of Health […]
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