FXB Center News and Events
Editor Needed:
The FXB Center seeks a scholarly and enterprising academic who is interested in expanding the reach and role of one of the world’s leading journals on health and human rights. The primary role of the Editor of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal is to serve as a thought leader who ensures the scholarly rigor and readability of the journal’s content, develops new authors, and increases diversity of readers. See the terms of reference for this new position.
Protecting Haiti's Children
The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti earlier has reportedly killed 250,000, injured 300,000, and left some 1,000,000 homeless. In the wake of the disaster, Haiti’s children have experienced heightened levels of insecurity including separation and loss, abuse and exploitation, interruptions in education, food insecurity, and profound levels of psychosocial distress.
In response to the devastation, the FXB Center has taken a lead role in promoting the needs, interests, and rights of children. The FXB Center's Haiti Child Protection Assessment Team (CPAT) recently drafted a report on their fieldwork in week two following the earthquake (January 24-31) to assess the vulnerabilities facing Haiti's children. A synthesis of the CPAT findings can also be found in a Perspective piece published by the New England Journal of Medicine (link here). They noted, "An imaginative, bold solution is required. Recovery from an earthquake is always complex and slow, but Haiti's children should not be made to wait and suffer."
Working closely with UNICEF, the Haitian Government, and its Harvard affiliates, the FXB Center continues to maintain an active presence in Haiti and is working with its partners in planning the long-term response to support the country's children.
More about the Haiti Child Protection Assessment
