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🤱 First implemented in 2020, Bogotá’s Care Blocks is a place-based public policy bringing free services for unpaid caregivers—especially women—and their families in accessible neighborhood hubs.

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#InequalitySolutions #SDG5 #CareEconomy
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Text: Care Blocks System: Colombia; Turning Care into Public Infrastructure: Recognizing Unpaid Care Work in Bogotá. Photo of kids going to school on the street.
May 12, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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❓ #DYK: Preston’s Community Wealth Building strategy lifted the city out of the bottom 20% of the UK’s most deprived local communities.

Learn how this was achieved ⤵️
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#SDG16f="/hashtag/SDG16Plus" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#SDG16Plus #SDG16 #NYUCIC #InequalitySolutions #SDG6
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December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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🏘️ How can we foster community building and drive local economic development?

🇬🇧 Preston City Council adopted a strategy focused on cooperative development, local procurement, and the realignment of local supply chains.

Learn more:
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Text over blue background: Revitalizing Preston and Community Wealth Building in the UK. By Maya Koehn-Wu. #InequalitySolutions. Houses on the bottom. Pathfinders logo on top middle.
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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🇨🇴 #DYK: Indigenous groups in Colombia occupy nearly 30% of the national territory, but they have experienced displacement, violence, and dispossession for decades.

💡 Learn how the country’s Permanent Roundtable tool is addressing this major issue:
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#SDG16Plus #Inequal
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November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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#ODS16f="/hashtag/ODS16Plus" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#ODS16Plus #ODS16 #NYUCIC #InequalitySolutions #ODS5 #SonNinasNoEsposas #FinAlMatrimonioInfantil @planusa.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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❓ #SabíasQue: En Colombia, casi 1 de cada 4 niñas se casa antes de cumplir los 18 años.

🇨🇴 En un avance histórico, Colombia aprobó en noviembre de 2024 una ley que fija en 18 años la edad mínima para casarse, sin excepciones. Prohibiendo de manera efectiva el matrimonio infantil.
Photo © Plan International. Text: “Niñas, no esposas”: La nueva ley de 2024 en Colombia prohíbe el matrimonio infantil, Leah Guyot, Leer ahora! #InequalitySolutions. Pathfinders logo on top left of text.
November 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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🇨🇴 How does Colombia’s Permanent Roundtable strengthen Indigenous self-determination?

📝 This policy is an institutional mechanism that requires the gov't to engage in legally mandated consultation w/ Indigenous communities on any law that affects their rights.

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November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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#SDG16f="/hashtag/SDG16Plus" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#SDG16Plus #SDG16 #NYUCIC #InequalitySolutions #SDG5 #SonNinasNoEsposas #EndChildMarriage @planusa.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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#ODS16f="/hashtag/ODS16Plus" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#ODS16Plus #ODS16 #NYUCIC #InequalitySolutions #ODS5 #SonNinasNoEsposas #FinAlMatrimonioInfantil @planusa.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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🇨🇴 En 2024, Colombia aprobó una ley que prohíbe el matrimonio infantil y las uniones precoces, un paso significativo tras años de defensa por parte de organizaciones de la sociedad civil. Esta ley tiene como objetivo proteger a los menores de contraer matrimonio o uniones antes de estar preparados.
Photo © Plan International. Text: “Niñas, no esposas”: La nueva ley de 2024 en Colombia prohíbe el matrimonio infantil, Leah Guyot, Leer ahora! #InequalitySolutions. Pathfinders logo on top left of text.
October 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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#SDG16f="/hashtag/SDG16Plus" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#SDG16Plus #SDG16 #NYUCIC #InequalitySolutions #SDG5 #SonNinasNoEsposas #EndChildMarriage @leahguyot.bsky.social‬ @planusa.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🤔 ¿Cómo podemos promover la igualdad de oportunidades para las mujeres?

🇨🇴 En noviembre de 2024, Colombia aprobó una ley que prohíbe el matrimonio infantil, protegiendo a los menores de contraer matrimonio o unirse de hecho antes de estar preparados.

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Photo © Plan International. Text: “Niñas, no esposas”: La nueva ley de 2024 en Colombia prohíbe el matrimonio infantil, Leah Guyot, Leer ahora! #InequalitySolutions. Pathfinders logo on top left of text.
October 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🌍 Pathfinders is proud to take part in this launch & share examples of housing policies worldwide. On the #InequalitySolutions Portal, you can find powerful case studies, including those written by @iied.bsky.social’s Paula Sevilla, that demonstrate change is possible and already happening.
October 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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❓ #DYK: Approximately 1.5 million Guatemalans live without electricity and, as a result, lack access to information and communications technology (ICT).

Learn how Digital Community Centers are addressing this challenge ⤵️
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October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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🇨🇴 In 2023, Colombia passed a law to provide alternatives to sentencing for women convicted of non-violent offenses.

Read more about the country’s first gender-sensitive criminal policy 👇
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#SDG16f="/hashtag/SDG16Plus" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#SDG16Plus #SDG16 #JusticeForAll #InequalitySolutions
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September 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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🚰 How can we advance Sustainable Development Goal 6 (clean water for all)?

🇵🇦 Panama’s rural water boards manage public water infrastructure along with the state, promoting greater equity in rural areas.

Learn more on our #InequalitySolutions portal 🔻
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#SDG6
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September 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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🤔 How can we create more gender-sensitive criminal policies?

🇨🇴 In March 2023, Colombia passed a law allowing women who are heads of household to serve their sentence outside of prison through unpaid community service.

Learn more about this approach to justice: www.sdg16.plus/policies/inc...
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September 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🚀 A new policy on the #InequalitySolutions portal is out now!

Maya Koehn-Wu explores how Digital Community Centers in Guatemala 🇬🇹 are expanding internet access for women and girls. 🛜

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September 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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❓ #DYK: In Colombia, about 23 percent of girls enter marriages below the age of 18.

🇨🇴 However, the country passed a law in November 2024 that raised the legal marriage age to 18 with no exception, effectively prohibiting child marriage and early unions.

Read more 👇
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September 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🇨🇷 In 1996, Costa Rica enacted the Forest Law 7575 to:

📈 Combat soaring deforestation rates.
🌳 Protect the remaining forests.
🌱 Encourage reforestation.

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#SDG16f="/hashtag/SDG16Plus" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#SDG16Plus #SDG16 #NYUCIC #SDG15 #SDGs #InequalitySolutions
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September 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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🤔 How can we promote #GenderEquality & equal opportunities for women?

🇨🇴 In November 2024, Colombia passed a law banning child marriage & early unions, protecting minors from entering marriage or unions before they’re legally and emotionally ready.

Learn more ⤵️
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August 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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❓ #DYK: As a result of the Forest Law 7575, about seven million new trees have been planted on private properties, and thousands of Costa Rican families have received direct cash transfers for their participation. 🇨🇷

Learn more about this policy ⤵️
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#InequalitySolutions
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August 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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🤔 Can urban gardens transform cities?

🚀 In Amman, Jordan 🇯🇴, the Community-Based Urban Garden is tackling multiple urban development and sustainability challenges by using a people-centered approach.

Learn more: www.sdg16.plus/policies/com...

#SDG16Plus #SDG13 #InequalitySolutions #ClimateAction
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August 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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🌟 #InequalitySolutions spotlight: Project Robin Hood

🏘️ This community budgeting program gives everyone an equal chance to shape where public money goes, based on shared local priorities.

How does it work? Find out here:
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August 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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💪 How can we achieve #SDG5?

Leaders at #HLPF2025 are currently discussing bold actions to accelerate progress on #GenderEquality. But we know words alone aren’t enough. 💬

🌟 @gensac.network & our #InequalitySolutions portal are creating change by advancing gender-inclusive policies.
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July 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM