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Empowering Children Through Film: Equity for Children and A Chance in Life Join Forces

In a powerful stride towards nurturing the potential of marginalized children, Equity for Children and A Chance in Life forged an inspiring partnership that created a transformative impact on the lives of these adolescents who reside in the poorest area of Staten Island.

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

Urban inequalities

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 around Child-Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) and engage children and young people in the discussion. Child poverty has sky-rocketed as a result of COVID-19, inflicting devastating damage on children’s development and undermining the realization of their […]

Approaches to Equity

Urban inequalities

World Health Day

On this World Health Day 2021, we still find ourselves facing the global COVID 19 pandemic. There have been approximately 131,487,572 confirmed cases and 2,857,702 reported deaths worldwide. In comparison to last year’s World Health Day 2020, which took place during the most prominent months of COVID 19, there’s a breakthrough in 2021. Advancements of […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

Impact Report 2020

Equity for Children’s Impact Report 2020 is now available for download.

Approaches to Equity

Urban inequalities

Hidden Impact of Covid-19 on Children and Families

Findings of the global survey Save the Children carried out to understand the true impact that COVID-19 has had on children and their families, capturing the voices of over 25,000 children, parents and caregivers from 37 countries. The survey, which is disaggregated by gender and disability, is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Key results can be found in […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Urban inequalities

COVID-19 and Education: Opening Schools for All Children

Organized by Equity for Children and the Arcor Foundation, this webinar delves into educational inequities and the importance of opening schools. More than 100 people across North and South America attended.

Approaches to Equity

Urban inequalities

Educational Gaps During the Pandemic: The Persistent Challenge of Access to Learning for All

Introduction In the world of Covid-19 2020, remote education is the most viable strategy for schooling. During the first few months of the year, a state of sanitary emergency was declared throughout most of Latin America. Classes were suspended, without accurate predictions as to how long the suspension would last. The halt in the educational system […]

Approaches to Equity

Urban inequalities

Taking Care of Children During a Global Pandemic

We are in the middle of a global crisis of extraordinary proportions that is affecting age groups in a different way. Statistics show that the elderly and people with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and heart disease are more vulnerable to Corona Virus, although in the U.S., 12% of the intensive care patients and […]

Approaches to Equity

Urban inequalities

International Women’s Day

According to a United Nations report, women and girls perform 12 billion hours of unpaid care work around the world every day – three times more than men. In some communities, women spend 14 hours a day cooking, cleaning, fetching wood and water and caring for children and the elderly. Gross Domestic Product does not […]

Approaches to Equity

Urban inequalities

Childhood and Urban Housing Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

An Article published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America Monica Rubio, Regional Adviser for Social Policy, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at UNICEF, has written a paper based on an Equity for Children’s forthcoming study, Diagnóstico de la infancia urbana en América Latina y El Caribe (Diagnostic of Urban Childhood in […]

Children's Rights

Urban inequalities

Strengthening Data and Research for Children in Urban Settings

Equity for Children shared its expertise about urban inequities affecting children at an invitation-only conference and workshop jointly organized by UNICEF and UN-Habitat, entitled “Strengthening Data and Research for Children in Urban Settings”. Global university and research center experts met in Florence to discuss how to fill data gaps and strengthen available evidence based on […]

Approaches to Equity

Category: Urban inequalities

Empowering Children Through Film: Equity for Children and A Chance in Life Join Forces

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

High Level Political Forum Official Side Event

World Health Day

Impact Report 2020

Hidden Impact of Covid-19 on Children and Families

COVID-19 and Education: Opening Schools for All Children

Educational Gaps During the Pandemic: The Persistent Challenge of Access to Learning for All

Taking Care of Children During a Global Pandemic

International Women’s Day

Childhood and Urban Housing Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Strengthening Data and Research for Children in Urban Settings

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