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Equity for Children’s Comments on the AINA Open Working Group Global E-Consultation on Inequality

In anticipation of the Eighth Session of the UN Open Working Group (3-7 February 2014), AINA hosted a global e-consultation from 16 December, 2013 – 17 January 2014 focused on the ‘Promoting Equality, including Social Equity’ issue brief of the Open Working Group’s Technical Support Team. This brief will be at the centre of the […]

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Child Poverty

Equidad para la Infancia América Latina: ‘Poverty and Inequality’

Although some data in recent years shows reducing rates of poverty, there are two major unresolved issues surrounding inequality and equity in the Latin America region. Firstly, it is necessary to focus on achieving greater equity for all, taking into account societal inclusions faced by new generations. With current development models, certain populations are experiencing […]

Children's Rights

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EFC Talks with Jessica Espey

In this EFC Talks, we speak to Jessica Espey, Senior Research and Policy Advisor at Save the Children UK. Jessica elaborates on the importance of equity for children and discusses her professional responsibilities, which help attain equity and equality for children. She also reflects upon the importance of the post-2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) dialogue and […]

Approaches to Equity

Child Poverty

‘Children’s Chances: How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving’

An interactive website for comparative data on child rights related laws and public policies Children’s Chances (www.childrenschances.org), launched in February 2013 by the World Policy Analysis Centre, is a comprehensive online database based on the Jody Heymann’s most recent publication, “Children’s Chances: How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving” (2013). The website contains never-before-available […]

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UNICEF and ECLAC present: Guide to Estimating Child Poverty

Having reliable and regular measurements of child poverty is essential to designing and implementing public policies aimed at overcoming it. The study Child Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC-UNICEF 2010), in which child poverty was measured with a multidimensional approach based on children’s rights in the countries of the region, shows that about 45% of […]

Approaches to Equity

Child Poverty

Why is Equity Important for Children?

Children represent more than one third of the world’s total population and nearly half of the population in the least developed countries. In the developing world, most of the poor are children. They are massive victims of war, social and family violence. They are orphaned by HIV/AIDS, sexually exploited and raped. They do not have […]

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Factual Clarification Note for Chapters 4 and 5 of ‘Global Child Poverty and Well-Being’

Available for Download: Factual clarification note and chapters 4 and 5 It has been brought to our attention that the recently published ‘Global Child Poverty and Well-Being’ (Minujin & Nandy, 2012) has opened a discussion regarding factual clarifications on measuring child poverty. A note has been prepared by Sabina Alkire and Jose Manuel Roche, both contributors to […]

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Child Poverty

Reducing Child Poverty and Inequality

With each global initiative launched to improve children’s lives, it becomes clearer that the promotion of equality and reduction of disparities among children hold a key to the success of these efforts. Ensuring equality is essential in waging the global campaign to fulfil children’s rights, reduce poverty and meet the human development goals established at […]

Approaches to Equity

Child Poverty

EFC Talks with Robbie Gilligan, Childwatch International Research Network.

Robbie Gilligan, the President of Childwatch International Research Network, discusses the work of the Network and its partners, and the importance of sharing ideas and conducting research to generate new knowledge and insight in the field of child rights and child protection. https://youtube.com/watch?v=hCGwRsXe_lU%3Frel%3D0%26nbsp%3B Professor Robbie Gilligan is Head of the School of Social Work and […]

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Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

A Select Annotated Bibliography with special reference to irreversibilities associated with poor nutrition, health and education. It forms part of the third phase (2005-2010) of work of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), which is structured around three distinct themes that will be carefully sequenced and closely integrated: thematic research, policy analysis, and policy engagement. In […]

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Children, Youth and the Environment: The Everyday Environments of Children’s Poverty

The Children, Youth and the Environment journal, Vol. 19, No.2 (2009) published by the University of Colorado, Boulder is now available online. This special issue contains results form the 2008 GPIA-UNICEF conference, Rethinking Poverty: Making Policies That Work for Children. It includes articles on the identification and measurement of child poverty, the impact of environments […]

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Course: Child Rights and Poverty in Development

This course is from the Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School – Fall 2007. The instructor is Alberto Minujin in collaboration with Enrique Delamonica. SCOPE: Children represent more than one third of the world’s total population and nearly half of the population in the least developed countries (LDC). To protect them, in 1924, the […]

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Children's Rights

Equity for Children’s Comments on the AINA Open Working Group Global E-Consultation on Inequality

Equidad para la Infancia América Latina: ‘Poverty and Inequality’

EFC Talks with Jessica Espey

‘Children’s Chances: How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving’

UNICEF and ECLAC present: Guide to Estimating Child Poverty

Why is Equity Important for Children?

Factual Clarification Note for Chapters 4 and 5 of ‘Global Child Poverty and Well-Being’

Reducing Child Poverty and Inequality

EFC Talks with Robbie Gilligan, Childwatch International Research Network.

Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Children, Youth and the Environment: The Everyday Environments of Children’s Poverty

Course: Child Rights and Poverty in Development

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