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Human Rights and Social Policies for Children and Women: The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in Practice

This book offers compelling insights on improving the well-being of children and women, primarily based on the use of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) designed by UNICEF. Authors from around the world represent diverse perspectives as members of academia, NGOs, government agencies, and international-development agencies, including UNICEF country offices. This resource is meant for […]

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Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health

A Girls Count Report on Adolescent Girls. Improving the health of adolescent girls in the developing world is the key to improving maternal and child health, reducing the impact of HIV, and accelerating social and economic development. Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health sheds light on the realities of girls’ health and […]

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Countdown to 2015: Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival

Building a Future for Women and Children: The 2012 Report In the five minutes it takes to read this page, 3 women will lose their lives to complications of pregnancy or childbirth, 60 others will suffer debilitating injuries and infection due to the same causes, and 70 children will die, nearly 30 of them newborn […]

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Urban inequalities

Young Lives Presentations

On Wednesday, February 8, Equity for Children at The New School presented a symposium entitledTackling Child Poverty in the Twenty-First Century by the Young Lives Project , a group of researchers at the University of Oxford. Co-hosted with The City University of New York (CUNY) and Rutgers University’s Department of Childhood Studies, the discussions offered a unique opportunity […]

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Social Media for Kids

A program that teaches children the importance of caution and responsibility in using social media In this era of online communication, it’s more vital than ever that young people – and the adults in their lives – are internet savvy and aware of online dangers. As recent incidents illustrate, misuse of social media sites – […]

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Urban inequalities

Influencing Green Behaviors Through Children

As the children of School 39 in Almirante Brown start drawing, they choose various hues of blues and greens to illustrate the small plot of land and creek adjacent to the school. This space, newly renovated with help from government-organized cooperatives, is part of a new initiative in the Matanza-Riacheulo basin in Argentina that prioritizes […]

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Young Lives Presentation and Seminar

Equity for Children, City University of New York (CUNY) and Rutgers University will cohost the Young Lives Presentation and Seminar from February 7-8, 2012 at The New School. This is to present the findings that the Young Lives research team at Oxford University released after 15 years of research, on 12,000 children in four countries: Ethiopia, […]

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Urban inequalities

Child and HIV-sensitive social protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

Lessons from the Children and AIDS Regional Initiative (CARI) By Dr. Keetie Roelen, Jerker Edström, dr. Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Mark Davies of the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies in the United Kingdom. This documentation explores child- and HIV-sensitive social protection implemented under the umbrella of CARI in five of nine […]

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It Takes A Village

A comic book from The Healthy Aboriginal Network that deals with maternal and child health. This comic book deals with maternal and child health. It seeks to teach pregnant women good maternal health practices including diet, traditional medicines, and spiritual connectivity with the growing baby both during pregnancy and after childbirth. While speaking through a […]

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Urban inequalities

Monitoring Health Equity in the MDGs: A Practical Guide

Center for International Earth Science Network and UNICEF The global consensus represented by the MDGs is a new point of departure for the development community. The UN Millennium Project and scores of other decision-makers, activists, bilateral aid organizations, and communities are already deeply immersed in efforts to reach the (Sachs et al. 2004, UNDP 2003). […]

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Urban inequalities

UNICEF Working Paper: Global Inequality: Beyong the Bottom Billion – Review of Income Distribution in 141 Countries

Executive Summary This working paper: (i) provides an overview of global, regional and national income inequalities based on the latest distribution data from the World Bank, UNU-WIDER and Eurostat; (ii) discusses the negative implications of rising income inequality for development; (iii) calls for placing equity at the center of development in the context of the […]

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Responding to the Perspectives of Urban Youth

INTRODUCTION The challenges facing urban youth are emerging as one of the most important global development issues. High levels of unemployment, health problems (especially around HIV/AIDS in many nations), social marginalization and exclusion from local governance are all issues that undermine the potential of young people and the stability of their communities. We have remarkably […]

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