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Study Highlights Critical Gaps in the United States’ Special Education System Read More

A new study examines how the United States’ special education system is failing to serve communities of color equitably from start to finish.

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New Report Evaluates Innovative Approach to Child Protection in India Read More

A new FXB Center report underscores the need for innovative community strategies to prevent serious violations of children’s rights.

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30 Years Later: Are We Protecting Children’s Rights? Watch Now

November 2019 marked 30 years since the signing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The FXB Center and Immigration Initiative at Harvard hosted an event to recognize this anniversary.

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Opioid Summit: Stigma and Access to Treatment Learn More

Watch Stigma and Access to Treatment, the October 10, 2019 University of Michigan - Harvard University summit on the opioid overdose crisis. Photo courtesy of Lisa Abitbol/Harvard Chan School.

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Roma Resistance: Reclaiming Our Story

Berlin Memorial to the Roma and Sinti Murdered by Nazism /Photo by Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0 By Marian Mandache August 2 marks the Day of Remembrance for Victims of the Roma Holocaust. Between 500,000 and 1.5 million Roma were exterminated during the Holocaust by the Nazi regimes and their allies. The memory of the Romani victims and survivors is yet to be fully recognize and preserved in history books,…

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August 12, 2015

Roma Children’s Fight for Education

By Abbey Interrante August 12, 2015. When István was a young child, he aspired to become a dance instructor, just like his father. Another boy, András wanted to become a car mechanic. However, as young boys, István and András were held back from achieving these dreams by their school in Hungary—simply for being Roma. When they were seven years old, István and András were tested for a mental disability by…

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