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by Equity for Children’s Senior Advisor, Samantha Cocco-Klein 9/14/2020 The latest UNICEF report on child wellbeing in rich countries is out – Worlds of Influence – and once again the U.S. is ranked at the bottom. The U.S comes in 36th out of 38, scoring low across all three dimensions of child wellbeing: mental health, physical health and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thank you for joining our staff at Equity for Children to honor the International Day of the Girl. October 11th has served since 2012 as a day to mobilize in raising awareness and pushing forward policy agendas addressing the many obstacles that females worldwide face to fulfilling their human rights. Today also serves as a […]

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