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Special Updates from Equity for Children's Partner: Dr. Charles Watters  The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University is a multidisciplinary department which puts the issues, concepts and debates that surround the study of children and childhoods at the center of its research and teaching missions. Through this multidisciplinary approach, the Department aims both to theorize and historicize the figure of the child and to situate the study of children and childhoods within contemporary cultural and global contexts. Work in the Department is multidisciplinary in scope and purpose and utilizes both humanistic and social science perspectives on children and their representations. In 2013 the Department will have the first PhD graduates in Childhood Studies in the USA.  read more
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Poverty, Needs and Rights: Definitions in Dispute .png) For centuries, the issue of poverty has been woven into a complex web that includes the production and distribution of goods as well as the power relations of our social, political and economic environment. The issue involves both the political and the social sciences, including economics, becoming a territory dispute in which it is impossible to assay a single, “neutral” language. The present issue of Voices in the Phoenix is dedicated to these issues and proposes a debate that is both plural and polyphonic. read more
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The Second Annual Latin American Colloquium: Call for Security Policies that Guarantee the Rights of Children (1).png) Nearly 150 people, including representatives of governments and social organizations, students, child experts and human rights, discussed the impact of security policies and violence on the rights of children and adolescents in Brazil and Latin America. On the 21st and 22nd of March, the campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) hosted the meeting with a central focus on the concepts of security and human rights that underpin public policy and social struggles in the region. read more
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The Effects of Pre-school Attendance on the Cognitive Development of Urban Children Aged 5 and 8 Years: Evidence from Ethiopia .png) A new working paper has been released from Equity for Children's partners in the United Kingdom, Young Lives. Tassew Woldehanna and Liyousew Gebremedhin use data from the Young Lives longitudinal survey in Ethiopia to examine the effects of pre-school attendance on the cognitive development of urban children at the ages of 5 and 8. The results show that pre-school attendance has a statistically significant positive impact on the cognitive development of children at the ages of both 5 and 8 years, with the bigger impact at the latter age. read more
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Countdown to 2015: Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival - Building a Future for Women and Children (2012) .png) This collaborative report from the World Health Organization and UNICEF highlights country progress—and obstacles to progress—towards achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. Countdown to 2015 focuses on evidence-based solutions—health interventions proven to save lives—and on the health systems, policies, financing and broader contextual factors that affect the equitable delivery of these interventions to women and children. Countdown focuses on data, because building a better future and protecting the basic human right to life require understanding where things stand right now and how they got to where they are today. read more
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Family Life in the Age of Migration and Mobility: Theory, Policy and Practice
On September 16-20, 2013 in Norrköping, Sweden, a conference entitled, "Family Life in the Age of Migration and Mobility" Theory,... |
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International Association for Citizenship, Social and Economics Education (IACSEE) Biennial Conference 2013
On July 18-20, 2013, The University of Auckland is hosting the 10th International Conference for the International Association for Citizenship,... |
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Call for Papers: Current Residential Therapeutic Practice with Children and Young People
On June 30, 2013, paper submissions for a future special issue of Therapeutic Communities are due.
Deadline for submissions: 30... |
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