Calu, Author at Equity for Children

Urban inequalities

Born Equal: How Reducing Inequality Could Give Our Children a Better Future

The Millennium Development Goals are a story of success. By aligning political energy and resources, they have facilitated huge strides in tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges. In the last ten years we’ve witnessed dramatic reductions in poverty and mortality, and huge improvements in school enrolment. The MDGs have demonstrated that, when the international […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

‘Poverty, Growth and Children: What’s the Right Sequence?’

Chapter 3 of Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurements, concepts, policy and action (Minujin & Nandy, 2012) Introduction: More than 100 years ago, Henry George – a colourful economist who ran for mayor of New York and whose brainchild is the famous board-game ‘Monopoly’ – noted that ‘the association of poverty with progress is the great enigma […]

Approaches to Equity

Urban inequalities

Putting Equity for Children on the Local Agenda: Limits and Challenges

Detailed Session Notes from UNICEF/Equity for Children Meeting || October 1, 2012 On October 1, 2012, Equity for Children hosted a discussion at The New School with UNICEF entitled “Putting Equity for Children on the Local Agenda: Limits and Challenges.” The session brought together 13 key staff members from UNICEF and 14 leading academics, researchers, and practitioners […]

Approaches to Equity

Urban inequalities

10 Takeaways from the “Putting Equity for Children on the Local Agenda: Limits and Challenges” Event

A Discussion between Equity for Children and UNICEF 10 TakeawaysPutting Equity for Children on the Local Agenda: Limits and ChallengesMonday, October 1, 2012 On October 1, 2012, Equity for Children hosted a discussion at The New School with UNICEF entitled “Putting Equity for Children on the Local Agenda: Limits and Challenges.” The following 10 key takeaway points […]

Approaches to Equity

Voice & participation

Fifth World Congress for the Rights of Children and Adolescents

Equity for Children and Equidad para la Infancia worked in conjunction with the Ministry of Social Development of Argentina to host the Fifth World Congress for the Rights of Children and Adolescents in San Juan, Argentina to discuss situations, structures and approaches on inequalities and poverty affecting children and adolescents in Latin America. The World Congress began in Venezuela in […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

International Conference on “Childhood, Challenges and Opportunities: Crossing Knowledge and Practices”

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the ARCOR Foundation in Cordoba, Argentina The ARCOR Foundation held an international seminar entitled “Childhood, Challenges and Opportunities: Integrating Knowledge with Practice,” as part of a series celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ARCOR Foundation’s founding. The seminar took place on September 6 and 7 in the Faculty of Law and […]

Children's Rights

Voice & participation

Social Media for Kids

A program that teaches children the importance of caution and responsibility in using social media In this era of online communication, it’s more vital than ever that young people – and the adults in their lives – are internet savvy and aware of online dangers. As recent incidents illustrate, misuse of social media sites – […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Urban inequalities

Influencing Green Behaviors Through Children

As the children of School 39 in Almirante Brown start drawing, they choose various hues of blues and greens to illustrate the small plot of land and creek adjacent to the school. This space, newly renovated with help from government-organized cooperatives, is part of a new initiative in the Matanza-Riacheulo basin in Argentina that prioritizes […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Urban inequalities

Cities for Children: An Outlook on Local Processes from a Child Participation Perspective

“When the city forgets its children it forgets its own citizens and it also forgets itself, but if it recovers its relationship with the children, if it gives them time and space to play, if it gives them the floor to speak, listens to their ideas, perhaps it may save itself.”[1] Francesco Tonucci More and more frequently […]

Approaches to Equity

Urban inequalities

Online birth data to prevent child marriage in Bangladesh

DHAKA, 3 July 2012 (IRIN) – The Bangladeshi government is attempting to register birth data online to combat high levels of child marriage. On 8 June in Bangladesh’s western Khustia District, local media reported that 15-year-old Iva Parvin was to be married off by parents hiding her age, but local officials challenged the marriage and […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

BOLIVIA: Draft law on juvenile justice seeks greater compliance with children’s rights

The draft law seeks to reform of several key inadequacies affecting children in conflict with the law, as well as those that come into contact with the law as victims or witnesses. [3 July 2012] – A new publication on juveniles in conflict with the law in Bolivia, produced by a children’s rights organisation, has […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

Public Policies and Child Rights: Entering the Third Decade of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

After 20 years of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), it is increasingly clear that states bear the responsibility to promote, guarantee, respect, and fulfill the realization of children’s rights by all members of the national and international communities. An initial emphasis on legal reforms to adapt national law to […]

Children's Rights

Author: Calu

Children's Rights

Born Equal: How Reducing Inequality Could Give Our Children a Better Future

‘Poverty, Growth and Children: What’s the Right Sequence?’

Putting Equity for Children on the Local Agenda: Limits and Challenges

10 Takeaways from the “Putting Equity for Children on the Local Agenda: Limits and Challenges” Event

Fifth World Congress for the Rights of Children and Adolescents

International Conference on “Childhood, Challenges and Opportunities: Crossing Knowledge and Practices”

Social Media for Kids

Influencing Green Behaviors Through Children

Cities for Children: An Outlook on Local Processes from a Child Participation Perspective

Online birth data to prevent child marriage in Bangladesh

BOLIVIA: Draft law on juvenile justice seeks greater compliance with children’s rights

Public Policies and Child Rights: Entering the Third Decade of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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