equity, Author at Equity for Children

Publications

Book Launch: Leaving No Child and No Adolescent Behind

The future of our world over the next decade is being shaped by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that seek to uphold children’s wellbeing and, by their call to leave no one behind and to reach the furthest behind first, shine a spotlight on the world’s most vulnerable populations including children and adolescents living in […]

Children's Rights

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Building The Village Video 3: Positive Youth Development

A Chance In Life is proud to present the third video in the series “Building The Village” about The Village program on Staten Island. The series has been created in partnership with Equity for Children at The New School. In this video, Brother Sean Moffett (former President of La Città dei Ragazzi in Rome), Rita Abadi […]

Publications

Impact Report 2021

Equity for Children’s 2021 Impact Report is now available. Click here to download.

Child Poverty

Resumen ejecutivo: Derecho a la ciudad, espacios públicos e infancias

La pandemia iniciada por la aparición del virus Covid-19 profundizó y evidenció las injusticias territoriales y las desigualdades estructurales que afectan a la mayoría de los niños y las niñas de las ciudades latinoamericanas, tanto en el acceso a la salud y a la educación como a una infraestructura habitacional y urbana dignas (Tuline Gülgönen, […]

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Building The Village Video 2: Father Raphael Discusses Self Governance

This is the second video in the series In First Person, The Village, in Staten Island. Here, Father Rafael presents a discussion on self governance. He speaks upon the diverse roles and responsibilities children, adolescents, and adults take. Confronting problems and facing them headstrong, as defined by Father Rafael, grants agency to children and adolescents, […]

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Building The Village Video 1: ‘Why The Village?’

A Chance In Life with Equity for Children to produce a video series about our newest program site- The Village on Staten Island – where we employ the Positive Youth Development (PYD) model to build competencies so that kids can overcome poverty and have a chance to succeed. In this video, Gabriele Delmonaco, A Chance […]

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Bergen SDG 2022 Presents: “Leaving No Child and No Adolescent Behind”

The Bergen SDG Conference of 2022 featured a multitude of presentations that addressed important issues affecting our humanity. The Global Research Program on Inequality hosted a discussion with the editors and contributing authors of the book “Leaving No Child and No Adolescent Behind.” Among these experts was the director of Equity For Children, Alberto Minujin. […]

Voice & participation

Empowering Youth on Staten Island: Reaching Adolescents in Jeopardy

Equity for Children and the worldwide non-profit A Chance In Life partnered to produce a video series about The Village, a youth center in Staten Island, at which adolescents who are disconnected from school and employment meet to build their skills and have a better chance to overcome poverty and succeed in life.

Approaches to Equity

Child Poverty

Why do children suffer poverty more frequently than other populations?

According to a research study conducted by Professor Alberto Minujin, monetary poverty in Argentina and non-monetary deprivations increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, having a devastating effect on children.

Approaches to Equity

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Human Rights Day

On this Human Rights Day, we continue our journey fighting against, and recuperating from the impacts of COVID-19. Seventy three years ago today The United Nations General Assembly first adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948. This became an immense milestone in the fight for human rights- as it was an […]

Urban inequalities

“Children and COVID-19”: Journalists in Dialog with Experts

In 2021, Equity for Children hosted a series of webinars from Latin America entitled “Children and COVID-19”, which discussed the approximately 150 million children who were plunged into multidimensional poverty during the pandemic. The events were organized in partnership with The Arcor Foundation, The Institute of Collective Health of the University of Lanus, Argentina (ISCo/UNLa) […]

Approaches to Equity

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World Children’s Day 2021

World Children’s Day was first established on November 20, 1954, and has since been celebrated each year, as a day to help promote social consciousness and advocate for better standards of living for children in every regard: education, accessibility to resources, proper medical attention, home life, etc. Five years later, after officially celebrating and engaging […]

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Children's Rights

Book Launch: Leaving No Child and No Adolescent Behind

Building The Village Video 3: Positive Youth Development

Impact Report 2021

Resumen ejecutivo: Derecho a la ciudad, espacios públicos e infancias

Building The Village Video 2: Father Raphael Discusses Self Governance

Building The Village Video 1: ‘Why The Village?’

Bergen SDG 2022 Presents: “Leaving No Child and No Adolescent Behind”

Empowering Youth on Staten Island: Reaching Adolescents in Jeopardy

Why do children suffer poverty more frequently than other populations?

Human Rights Day

“Children and COVID-19”: Journalists in Dialog with Experts

World Children’s Day 2021

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