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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…

With Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB’s Director of Research, and Elizabeth Gibbons, FXB Senior Fellow Child in Kenya. Photograph by Abbie Duger. Read the GlobalPost’s coverage of the event. The FXB Center’s Director of Research,…

The True Costs of Maternal Mortality Alicia Ely Yamin, HRWC Program Director, will moderate a seminar on November 6, 2013 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm as part of the Frontiers in Global Health series on “The True Costs of Maternal Mortality on Children…

April 8, 2013 – “Realizing Roma Rights: Addressing Violence, Discrimination and Segregation in Europe,” held on International Roma Day, was the first conference at Harvard University to examine the rights of the Roma, Europe’s largest ethnic…