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Poor Families and Children Facing the Covid Challenge

Children and Poverty in the Era of Covid-19: Impacts and Challenges An April 15 webinar entitled “Children and Poverty in the Face of Covid-19” was attended by over 300 people from 12 countries. The session was jointly sponsored by Equity for Children and the ARCOR Foundation. Experts in child development, governmental policy and programming from […]

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Remote Learning Creates Increased Inequality for Latin American Boys and Girls

Background In this article, we analyze how homeschooling and remote education highlight inequality. We look at the educational implications of the Covid-19 pandemic in Latin America and recommend thoughts and actions to lessen the adverse effects on children and adolescents. The quarantine adopted in many countries affected by Covid-19 has forced families to seclude themselves […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Urban inequalities

Impact Report 2019

Equity for Children’s Impact Report 2019 is now available. You can download the PDF version or read it here.

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Urban inequalities

Freedom Day

Thank you for taking a moment to join Equity for Children in observance of National Freedom Day. This day commemorates February 1st, 1865, when Abraham Lincoln signed the document which would later become known as the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, outlawing slavery. This observance day was established and first celebrated by the National […]

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Urban inequalities

Local action to end poverty

On October 14, economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee of MIT, along with Michael Kremer of Harvard gained recognition for their pioneering work in poverty reduction as recipients of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The work of these Nobel laureates has been monumental in the field of development economics. It did not […]

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Urban inequalities

Human Right’s Day

Today is Human Right’s Day, which this year marks the 70th anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document affirms the international consensus on the inalienable rights of all humans equally, with no differentiation in these rights or in the tools to protect said rights for reasons […]