On the 28 September, the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI), Humanium reflects on the importance of being informed, and renews its hope for the realisation of equity in access to information and education for each and every citizen of the...
Children in Sudan: Inequality, poverty, and disease
Children of Sudan are facing harsh poverty. More than half of them do not attend school, 90% of females are obliged to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), 12.4% of girls are forced to marry before the age 15, and many of them are employed as child soldiers. The...
Child Immigration Detention: Part 2
Today each country has its own mechanisms to fight illegal migration, but some have demonstrated not having any limits in the way this should be done, no matter if they are children or adults. The Australian government has made children criminals for traveling without...
Early childhood development: The foundation of a sustainable and prosperous society
At Humanium, we are already focusing on early childhood. It is in early childhood that the foundations for each human life are laid. Early childhood can be defined as the period between a child’s birth and their eighth birthday (World Vision). This is a crucial time...
How can we help the youth in need on World Suicide Prevention Day?
At Humanium we strive for strengthening the local communities one lives in, providing protection and involvement of each one individually and together! Suicide, globally Every 40 seconds, a person takes their own life. In a year, this amounts to 800 000 human beings....
Humanium celebrates the International Day of Literacy
International Literacy Day, celebrated on the 8th September by the United Nations, is aimed at highlighting issues around literacy as well as opportunities for civil societies and governments around the world to address literacy challenges. ‘Literacy and...
Child Immigration Detention: Part 1
The immeasurable detriment of child immigration detention continues to mount in prevalence. This article explores where and how the detention of children is taking place, in flagrant violation of international law and standards and in heartbreaking degradation to the...
Palestine Chronicle No. 1: Growing up in the middle of conflict
For the first time, Humanium is presenting a series of chronicles. Their aim is to take us to the heart of Palestine using four themes, four views, each one shining a different light on a region that is as beautiful as it is disturbing. “What on earth were you going...
Searching for answers: The immense human rights work still to be done in face of enforced disappearance
People look for their families for their whole lives. They themselves go missing in the search. This horrific violation happens alongside abuses of torture, coerced confessions, sexual assault and murder; and exacts untold torment upon its victims and survivors. What...
Justice for Murtaja Qureiris
Murtaja Qureiris, now 18, faces the death penalty for participating in a series of peaceful protests which trace back to when he was 10 years old. He was arrested in September 2014 at the age of 13 for his involvement in the bicycle protests in Saudi Arabia’s eastern...









