Research

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.

Children's Rights

Voice & participation

Empowering Youth on Staten Island: Reaching Adolescents in Jeopardy

Equity for Children and the worldwide non-profit A Chance In Life partnered to produce a video series about The Village, a youth center in Staten Island, at which adolescents who are disconnected from school and employment meet to build their skills and have a better chance to overcome poverty and succeed in life.

Approaches to Equity

Child Poverty

Why do children suffer poverty more frequently than other populations?

According to a research study conducted by Professor Alberto Minujin, monetary poverty in Argentina and non-monetary deprivations increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, having a devastating effect on children.

Approaches to Equity

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

Child Poverty

Info-graphic: Children living monetary and multidimensional poverty

The COVID 19 pandemic has significantly increased the monetary and multidimensional child poverty rates across several developing countries. The data investigated by UNICEF shows how 1 in 6 children worldwide are struggling to survive as a result of monetary circumstances. And it was predicted that in 2020, there would be a large increase in multidimensional […]

Monitoring and Evaluation

Voice & participation

‘In First Person’ Videos: Voices of the Pandemic

A series of brief, powerful videos about life during the pandemic for some of the most vulnerable communities in Latin America. Women give voice to the challenges they and their children have faced during COVID-19.

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In First Person

Research

Children and the Rights to the City

Empowering Youth on Staten Island: Reaching Adolescents in Jeopardy

Why do children suffer poverty more frequently than other populations?

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

Info-graphic: Children living monetary and multidimensional poverty

‘In First Person’ Videos: Voices of the Pandemic

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