High Level Political Forum Official Side Event
The role of child-sensitive social protection in the sustainable andresilient recovery from COVID-19. The event will facilitate an engaging debate …
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Info-graphic: Children living monetary and multidimensional poverty
The COVID 19 pandemic has significantly increased the monetary and multidimensional child poverty rates across several developing countries. The data …
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World Health Day
On this World Health Day 2021, we still find ourselves facing the global COVID 19 pandemic. There have been approximately …
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Impact Report 2020
Since the start of Covid-19, Equity for Children initiated programming to reflect the urgent needs experienced by vulnerable families and their children. The pandemic exacerbated existing inequalities, putting an estimated 60 million children at risk of falling into poverty. Economic hardship experienced by families threatens all aspects of child wellbeing, but the digital divide reflected in home schooling presents a grave danger of rising inequality.
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South American Children’s Quality of Life: Intra-Urban Disparities along Life-Cycle Indicators
By 2015, 80% of the population in South America was living in urban areas. Although children in urban areas, on …
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Remember Equity for Children on Giving Tuesday!
Equity for Children has stepped up on many fronts to address the way in which COVID-19 impacts children in poverty. …
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World Children’s Day November 20th, 2020
Every November 20th, we come together to celebrate World Children’s Day. This is in commemoration to the UN General Assembly …
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Equity for Children’s In First Person Video Presented to United Nations Secretary-General at the High Level Consultation
Equity for Children’s In First Person video of Mrs. Maritza Pfuño Diaz, a Peruvian woman who lives with her two sons and daughter in the most populous district of Lima, put a personal face on the harsh realities that vulnerable families face during Covid-19. Anita Thomas, Chair of the United Nation’s NGO Committee on Financing for Development, said of Equity for Children’s video: “It is amazing how advocacy gets leveraged to a whole different level when Civil Society Organizations come together instead of working in silos.”
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International Day of the Eradication of Poverty 2020
Millions of children have been pushed into poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic – and the poorest are getting poorer. …
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