Children's Rights Archives - Equity for Children

Child Poverty

Analyzing UNICEF’s Worldwide Poverty Reduction Efforts

An in-depth study by Equity for Children about UNICEF’s efforts to reduce child poverty globally

Children's Rights

Child Poverty

Children and the Rights to the City

The majority of children in Latin America live in settlements and popular neighborhoods of large cities where they live with high rates of inequality.

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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 […]

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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

South American Children’s Quality of Life: Intra-Urban Disparities along Life-Cycle Indicators

By 2015, 80% of the population in South America was living in urban areas. Although children in urban areas, on average, enjoy better conditions than children in rural areas, millions of urban children struggle to overcome poverty. There is no urban advantage in terms of Quality of Life for them. In this context, understanding the […]

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Urban inequalities

Remember Equity for Children on Giving Tuesday!

Equity for Children has stepped up on many fronts to address the way in which COVID-19 impacts children in poverty. Most recently: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Ambassadors and State Representatives from around the world viewed an Equity for Children In First Person video at the United Nations. Our latest webinar, Opening Schools for All Children: Covid-19, Equity and Educational […]

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Voice & participation

World Children’s Day November 20th, 2020

Every November 20th, we come together to celebrate World Children’s Day. This is in commemoration to the UN General Assembly Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and the Convention of the Rights of the Child ratified in 1989. These human rights treaties are the most widely ratified in history. These are the […]

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Child Poverty

International Day of the Eradication of Poverty 2020

Millions of children have been pushed into poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic – and the poorest are getting poorer. Now is the time to rapidly expand social protection systems, to mitigate the impact of the crisis on children. 1 in 5 children globally are struggling to survive on less than $1.90 a day. Addressing […]

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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 […]

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Voice & participation

Call for Submission to 21st IPA Triennial World Conference on Play and Resilience

I would like to share an exciting call for submission to a conference in India next year: 21st IPA Triennial World Conference on Play and Resilience. If you have an interest in play, childhood development, child rights or resilience-building which is critical to the future of our planet this conference is a must. Find out more […]

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Voice & participation

30th Anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child

Thank you for joining Equity for Children to recognize the 30th anniversary of the landmark adoption of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). On November 20th, 1989, world leaders within the UN General Assembly made history, committing to an international agreement on child rights. The CRC has become the world’s most widespread […]

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Child Poverty

International Day on the Eradication of Poverty

On October 17th, activists, organizations, and 150 children joined to commemorate the 27th International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP) at the United Nations in New York. This day centers on the need to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to affirm that poverty is a violation of human rights that must […]

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