The 12th December 2019, we are celebrating the second official Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day. In order to prepare, let’s engage in a conversation about health. What is Universal Health Coverage? UHC is: promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and...
Palestine Chronicle No. 3: Education, a path to peace
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. Given the challenges of...
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery – The fight is not over
Slavery didn’t disappear with the end of the slave trade – it currently affects more than 40 million people around the world and takes a range of forms. Slavery primarily threatens all people considered to be vulnerable, and children are unfortunately part of this...
Children and AIDS — from statistics to stigma
It is, without any doubt, a difficult topic to approach. And every year, on 1 December, we get the chance, as individuals and groups, to tackle the subject firsthand in numerous ways. Although the World AIDS Day is a reminder of the lives affected, of the AIDS medical...
A school that is changing the world
‘Changing the world’ – big words, resonating words, words that might make you wonder whether they are justified. After all, we are only talking about a school. In September 2019, I arrived in Kasese, Uganda. This trip had been on mind since early 2016, when I first...
The Long Overdue Eradication of Violence Against Women and Girls
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...
Thirty years since the Convention on the Rights of the Child – children’s rights improvements and problems all over the world
Thirty years ago, on November 20th 1989 the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution in the New York headquarters of the United Nations. The Resolution in the form of 54...
Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Reflections on the Current State of Children’s Rights in Situations of Armed Conflict, Forced Displacement and Migration
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (herein the CRC), it is important to reflect on some of the most critical issues children face in today’s world: armed conflict, forced displacement and child migration. In recent memory...
Palestine Chronicle No. 2: Gender Divisions
For the first time, Humanium is presenting a series of chronicles. They aim 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. In the face of the endless...
Children’s rights at risk – How climate change affects children’s rights
It has been 30 years since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 November 1989. One of the central themes at this year’s anniversary events is climate change and its drastic consequences for...









