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India’s Hand-Made Carpets Sold in Many Major U.S. Retail Chains January 28, 2014 — Siddharth Kara, Fellow with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, has…

Syrian children work alongside the adults to harvest potatoes in the Bekaa Valley. January 13, 2014 – The FXB Center today released a report on the conditions of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon, titled “Running Out Of Time: Survival of Syrian…

The FXB Center has submitted a report to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for inclusion in a report on preventing and eliminating child, early, and forced marriage, with a particular focus on challenges, achievements, best…

Workshop in Malawi Draws Key Players Stakeholders gather in Malawi for meeting on HRBAs. November 2013 — The Technical Guidance on a Rights-Based Approach to Maternal Mortality and Morbidity, drafted by FXB faculty member Alicia Ely Yamin,…

For Immediate Release Harvard and UNICEF team up to train global child protection experts BOSTON, November 6, 2013 – On November 6, 2013, faculty from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will join children’s rights organization UNICEF in a…

Margareta Matache, FXB Fellow and member of the FXB Roma project team, spoke with Al Jazeera America about the recent Roma controversies in Europe. Two Roma families in Ireland and Greece were discovered with blonde, fair-skinned children in their midst…

Innovating for Education October 11, 2013 Across the globe, millions of girls continue to be deprived of an education – a moral imperative and a basic right – due to cultural, financial, and safety barriers. In addition, for young women in many…

Alicia Ely Yamin Speaks at UN General Assembly Side Event on the Power of Numbers Alicia Ely Yamin, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Gita Sen discuss MDG targets and the road ahead towards defining achievable indicators for the Post-2015 agenda. Alicia Ely…

UNICEF Working Paper Jacqueline Bhabha, Director of Research for the FXB Center, has authored a report entitled “Adolescents: current rights for future opportunities,” released in conjunction with UNICEF’s Regional Offices for…

Featuring Jennifer Leaning, Director of the FXB Center The Za’atari refugee camp for displaced Syrians in Jordan. Photograph by Warda Toma. The Harvard School of Public Health hosted a live Forum event on the Humanitarian Crisis in Syria on…