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Clint Hamada

Childinfo.org: Statistics by Area - Education - Overview - 3 views

  • achieving two of them – universal education (MDG 2), and gender equality and empowering women (MDG 3) – is vital to meeting all the others.
  • getting girls into school and ensuring that they stay there has what UNICEF calls a "multiplier effect."
  • Educating a girl dramatically reduces the chance that her child will die before age five
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  • Of the 68 million out-of-school primary-school-age children, 53 per cent are girls (UNESCO Data Centre 2010).  Of the lower secondary out-of-school adolescents, 54 per cent are girls
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    universal education (MDG 2), and gender equality and empowering women (MDG 3) - is vital to meeting all the others.
Clint Hamada

Childinfo.org: Statistics by Area - Millennium Development Goals - Overview - 2 views

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    3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education 3.2 Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector 3.3 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament
graemefoster

Education For All - the next goal - 2 views

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    Infographic on the inter-disciplinary impact of education.
kels_giroux

Oxfam Education: Resources index | Change the World in Eight Steps - 6 views

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    Posters, lesson ideas, and information on MDGS
Melissa Griffin

100 People: A World Portrait - 3 views

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    Bill Gates meets 10 Intel ISEF studentsat Techonomy for the 100 People project The 100 People Foundation is a global education toolbox. By framing the world population as a community of 100 people, we help students to better understand the complex issues facing our planet and the resources we share.
Melissa Griffin

OECD video on busan and MDG progress - short and good - 3 views

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    With some two billion people living in poverty, without clean water and sanitation or access to schooling and healthcare, it's clear that development has to work better to improve people's lives. The Forth High-level Forum in Busan aims to make that happen.
Andrea Law

United Nations in Vietnam - 3 views

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    This website is the UN in Vietnam and looks at each MDG from a local perspective!
Andrea Law

WorldMapper - 7 views

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    Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
Melissa Griffin

Shake the world - MDG activities - 5 views

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    Welcome! It is time to Shake the World. How? By joining the global Shake the World movement to support the Millennium Development Goals. These are the eight goals set by the UN in september 2000 to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015. Five years to go, eight goals to achieve, time to shake the world!
Melissa Griffin

Unicef adolescents data: what is the state of the world for teenagers? - 2 views

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    The latest Unicef state of the world's children report is out, with a special focus on adolescents. So, how do the world's teenagers compare?* Get the data* Search the MDG data. Read more about the report Children are unambiguously the focus of the millennium development goals (MDGs). But what happens when they grow up?
Melissa Griffin

Why can't kids have school in Afghanistan? - sherry cherry BOOM BOOM! XD - 3 views

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    IStudent blog - G07 - From all the questions available, I was really interested in the question, "Why can't they have school in Afghanistan?"
Sibylle Harth

Post 2015 | End Poverty 2015 - 3 views

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    The United Nations Millennium Campaign, along with many partners within the United Nations as well as Civil Society Stakeholders are now looking at prospects for the Post-2015 agenda. As we look towards the year 2015, we will make make one final push to achieve the MDGs, seriously review the experience had with development goals since 2000 and strive to help create a more inclusive and holistic set of goals post-2015.
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